Evan GarzaEvan Garza is a Curator at MASS MoCA. They were awarded the 2021-2022 IMMA Fulbright US Scholarship at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and a visiting research fellowship in History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin, where they rsearched Irish contemporary art, protest movements, and Ireland's anticolonial history of rebellion. Garza has organized several exhibitions and projects internationally and was artistic director of the 2021 Texas Biennial, co-curated with Ryan N. Dennis. Garza is the former director of Rice Public Art at Rice University in their native Houston, and previously was Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. Garza was co-founder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), a New York nonprofit and the first residency program in the world exclusively for LGBTQ+ artists, where they served as assistant director until 2015. Their writing on the work of global contemporary artists has been published in several books and monographs and by Flash Art, ART PAPERS, and Artforum. Garza earned their MA from the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute, and recently curated the exhibition Steve Locke: the fire next time, at MASS MoCA. Read More Read Less