The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

For this session of the Curatorial Roundtable, Nam will talk about what she calls “curating for places and spaces,” discussing her work at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center, Ballroom Marfa, and the Wattis. She’ll discuss the ways she’s worked with artists she has exhibited in terms of physical space, historical context, and audience.

Daisy Nam is the director and curator of CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco. From 2020 to 2022, she served as director and curator of Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary art space dedicated to supporting artists through residencies, commissions, and exhibitions. From 2015 to 2019, she was the assistant director at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. From 2008–2015, she produced seven seasons of talks, screenings, performances, and workshops as the assistant director of public programs at the School of the Arts, Columbia University. Nam’s curatorial residencies and fellowships include: Marcia Tucker Senior Research Fellow at the New Museum, New York (2020); Bellas Artes, Bataan, Philippines (2020); Surf Point in York, Maine (2019); Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea (2018). She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and lectured at Lesley University, Northeastern, SMFA/Tufts, and SVA as a visiting critic. She co-edited the publication Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts with Paper Monument in 2021.

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