Erin Christovale

Erin Christovale is a Los Angeles–based curator and programmer who currently works as a curator at the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles. Together with Hammer Museum senior curator Anne Ellegood, Christovale curated the museum's fourth Made in L.A. biennial in June 2018. She also leads Black Radical Imagination, an experimental film program she co-founded with Amir George. Black Radical Imagination tours internationally and has screened at MoMA PS1; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Museo Taller Jose Clemente Orozco, among other spaces. Prior to her appointment at the Hammer Museum, Christovale worked as a curator at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Curated Shows

S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom was a mixed-media show Christovale curated at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery in 2016. The show featured works by 32 contemporary artists engaging with the concept of American citizenship, particularly in the context of the political climate surrounding the 2016 presidential election. Notable works in the exhibition included: "Index of Fear" (2015) by Margaret Noble: an interactive media archive where one can pick out sounds that correspond to fears such as "futility" and "forgotten" "Study for a Pattern or Practice" (2015) by Bethany Collins: a blind-embossed rendition of the table of contents from the Department of Justice report on the Ferguson Police Department after the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown "Peaceful Protest Helmet" (2016) by James Berson: a line of colorful helmets with the inscription "PEACEFUL PROTEST HELMET" and attached recording devices with the lenses facing the viewers The exhibition used performance, photography, collage, video and sound installation to explore biomythography and non-traditional archiving.

a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) "a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster" was an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn, New York from August through November 2014. The video exhibition highlighted the intersection between traumatized diaspora bodies and modern environmental disasters through the work of 12 video artists.