Grace Oh, Chair, (5/21) is the Managing Director of Formation Association, overseeing operational arenas of the practice and growth of the firm. Her role is informed by her production experience in entertainment for MTV, VH1, the Disney Channel, and independent films, and as a keynote speaker for entertainment marketing events both globally and locally.Grace is an advocate for intersectional contemporary art across various cultural organizations in Los Angeles. As a member of Fellows of Contemporary Art for the past five years, Grace worked to highlight the ever growing community of emerging artists in Los Angeles. In addition to serving on the board of LACE, she also serves as a Board member for the national organization, Creative Capital.
Ken Gonzales-Day, Vice Chair, (6/22) Ken Gonzales-Day’s interdisciplinary and conceptually grounded projects consider the history of photography, the construction of race, and the limits of representational systems from lynching photography to museum displays. Gonzales-Day’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Getty, LACMA, École des Beaux Arts (Paris), Nation Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. His monographs include Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke) and Profiled (LACMA, 2011). Gonzales-Day hold the Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and is a Professor at Scripps College and is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
Annie Brose, Treasurer, (8/24) is from Minneapolis and currently lives in Pasadena with her family. She is an attorney who practiced intellectual property law at McDermott, Will & Emery in its Washington, D.C. office focusing on copyright and trademark issues. Prior to practicing law, she worked in several art museums including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in various departments. She attended Lawrence University for her BA, The George Washington University Law School for her JD, and the Claremont Graduate School where she completed a MA in Arts Management. She currently serves on the boards of the Pasadena Art Alliance and Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley where she recently concluded a two-year term as board chair. Additionally, she serves on the Affiliate Board Council for the national Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Clare Haggarty, Secretary, (10/24) has over 20 years’ experience in the arts and culture sector in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. For the past 13 years, her focus has been public art. She is currently the Director, Public Arts and Design at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). Clare directs a team implementing the design, fabrication and installation of large-scale, architecturally integrated public artworks for some of the largest transit infrastructure projects in the world. Clare has the honor of working with a diverse range of highly accomplished contemporary artists, many of whom live and work in Los Angeles. Prior to Metro, she was Deputy Director of Collections for the Civic Art Program at the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (then known as the Arts Commission). Notable achievements included leading the first comprehensive County-wide art inventory and overseeing the complex, community-driven removal of the Christopher Columbus statue in downtown Los Angeles. Clare has extensive experience in public art, curating, collections management, project management and public programs. She previously served on the Western Museum Association Board and was a two-term elected member of Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Advisory Council. Clare currently serves on the San Diego International Airport’s Arts Advisory Committee. Clare was born in Scotland, raised in Scotland and Texas and has called California home since 2000. Clare holds a MA in History of Art from the University of Glasgow and a MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.
Jackie Amézquita (Quetzaltengo, Guatemala, b.1985) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is an artist with a multidisciplinary practice. Her research is articulated through the use of biomaterials and forms associated with pre-Columbian cultures. Amézquita creates public performances, installations, and objects that fuse indigenous mythologies with contemporary community engagement. Amézquita received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2022 and her B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, in 2018. She has exhibited with The Hammer Museum, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) CA, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) CA, 18th St Art Center CA, The Armory Center of the Arts CA, Vincent Price Art Museum CA, The Annenberg Space for Photography CA, Human Resources Los Angeles CA, MAD (Museum of Art and Design) NY. Amézquita is the recipient of the Mohn Public Recognition Award (2023), Mohn Land Award (2022), Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts Los Angeles Art Fund (2022), and National Performance Network Fund (2022). Amézquita has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, ARTnews, and The Art Newspaper, LA. Weekly, hyperallergic, Walker Art Center magazine.
Dr. Tiffany E. Barber (10/24) is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized scholar, curator, and critic whose writing and expert commentary appears in top-tier academic journals, popular media outlets, and award-winning documentaries. Her work spans abstraction, dance, fashion, feminism, film, and the ethics of representation, focusing on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. Dr. Barber is the recipient of the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize and is currently Assistant Professor of African American Art at UCLA. Before joining the Department of Art History at UCLA, she was Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of Delaware and curator-in-residence at The Delaware Contemporary.
Michael Gonzales (1/19) is a Los Angeles based land use attorney, founded Gonzales Law Group APC (“GLG”) in August 2011. Prior to founding GLG, Michael practiced land use and real estate law for over 8 years at two Los Angeles based law firms. Michael has successfully run his boutique law practice for the last 7 years, implementing the development and construction of various hotels and multi-family projects.
Michael has significant experience developing entitlement strategies and obtaining entitlements for a range of commercial, residential and mixed-use projects throughout Southern California, with many projects in Hollywood. Michael has also served as a member of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors for the last 6 years. Michael obtained his undergraduate degree from UCLA and his law degree from USC. Michael currently resides is Los Angeles with his wife Sunny and his two kids, Sebastian and Violet.
Mark Steven Greenfield (1/21) A native Angelino, Mark Steven Greenfield studied under Charles White and John Riddle at Otis Art Institute in a program sponsored by the Golden State Life Insurance Company. He went on to receive his Bachelor’s degree in Art Education from California State University, Long Beach and a MFA in painting and drawing from California State University Los Angeles. From 1993-2011 he worked for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs as director of the Watts Towers Arts Center ,and later as director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park. Greenfield’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and international spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the California African American Museum, and the Gang Dong Art Center in Seoul, South Korea. His work deals primarily with the African American experience and in recent years has focused on the effects of stereotypes on American culture. He is a recipient of numerous residencies and awards including COLA and CCF fellowships, and currently represented by the William Turner gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Mark has served on the boards of the Downtown Artists Development Association, the Armory Center for the Arts, the Black Creative Professionals Association, the Watts Village Theatre Company and was past president of the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825. He currently teaches drawing and design at Los Angeles City College, and also serves on the boards of Side Street Projects and the Harpo Foundation. www.markstevengreenfield.com
Jerson Hondall (He/Him/His) (8/24) was born and raised in Xalapa, Mexico. He has lived in Los Angeles since 2017. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Universidad de las Americas Puebla (UDLAP), with a major in International Relations and a minor in Art History. Jerson has held positions at Arquine; MEXTRÓPOLI, International Festival of Architecture and the City; Morton Auctioneers; Curate L.A.; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; and Hauser & Wirth. Since 2021, he has been working at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. An avid art enthusiast and supporter of the arts, he spends the majority of his free time visiting art galleries, museums, and artists’ studios. His passion in contemporary art is based on its ability to bring together and build communities through story telling.
Young Joon Kwak (6/22) (they/them and she/her) is a LA-based multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work spans sculpture, performance, music, video, and community-based collaborations, creating connections that bridge communities across a wide variety of socio-cultural, institutional, and alternative art contexts. Through sculptural manipulations in the form, functionality, and materiality of objects, they question common modes of perception and bodily objectification, while posing alternative ways of viewing bodies “beyond the skin.” Kwak is the founder of Mutant Salon, a roving beauty salon/platform for collaborative performances and installations with their community of queer, trans, femme, POC artists and performers. She and Mutant Salon were LACE’s 2018 Summer Residency artists, creating the exhibition Cavernous. They are lead performer in the electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner.
Kwak presented solo and collaborative exhibitions and performances internationally at galleries and institutions including Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea (2022); Korean Cultural Center, LA (2021); Commonwealth & Council, LA (2021, 2017, 2016, 2014); Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada (2018); the Art Museum of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá (2018); The Broad, LA (2016); and the Hammer Museum, LA (2016). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (2021); Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (2019); Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2019); and Le Pavillon Vendôme Centre d’Art Contemporain, Clichy, France (2015). Kwak received the Korea Arts Foundation of America’s Award for the Visual Arts (2020), Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant (2018), Artist Community Engagement Grant (2016), and the Art Matters Grant (2016). Kwak received an MFA from the University of Southern California in 2014, an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago in 2010, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. In addition to LACE, Kwak serves on the board of the Feminist Center for Creative Work. Kwak taught and mentored at schools including California Institute of the Arts; School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s low-residency MFA program; University of California, Riverside; and University of California, San Diego. Kwak’s work has been reviewed and featured in Artforum, ARTnews, Artillery Magazine, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, and LA Times, among others.
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Kathie Foley-Meyer, Chair Emerita (12/11) is a mixed media artist and arts consultant based in Los Angeles. In her work as a nonprofit arts consultant she is charged with facilitating connections between the organizations and potential funders, artists and collaborators. She has also worked as a graphic designer on behalf of theater companies, museums and other nonprofits. She received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. In 2016 her work was featured in the group exhibition “SKIN” at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, which explored the subject of race and identity in contemporary American life. She also created an installation at the Pasadena Playhouse for the production of FLY by Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan, a play that tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. In July her piece Colored Entrance, was featured in the “Real American” exhibition at the Ann Arbor Art Center. In 2015 she was part of a group of American artists who traveled to Japan and exhibited their work with Japanese artists in Kitakyushu, Ashiya and Kyoto. Her sculpture Brown People, Glass Housewas featured in “Hard-Edged: Geometrical Abstraction and Beyond,” a group show at the California African American Museum that ran through April of 2016, and her solo exhibition of photographs and mixed media entitled Memory Parade was on view at LA Artcore in the fall of 2015.
