Amanda Hunt is a Curator at LAXART, Los Angeles. A graduate of the Curatorial Practice Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, she has worked at various galleries and institutions including Whitechapel Gallery, London; Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Hunt worked on two major arts initiatives in Los Angeles in 2012, including the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, co-produced by LAXART and the Getty Research Institute, and Made in L.A. 2012, the first Los Angeles biennial organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART.
Hunt most recently served as Curatorial Assistant to LAXART Founder/Director Lauri Firstenberg on the Los Angeles City Pavilion produced by Walead Beshty as part of the 9th Shanghai Biennale in September 2012.
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Studio visit schedule on 25 October
sign up on Friday 19 October @11am
sign up on Friday 19 October @11am
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7:00PM in Center Bay // A Conversation with Amanda Hunt around the interaction between artist and gallery, and the transitions that ostensibly should occur (professionally) between graduate school and the real world.
