Renny Pritikin

Renny Pritikin (born c. 1948) is an American curator, museum professional, writer, poet, and educator. He was the chief curator of San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum from 2014 to 2018. He was Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at the University of California, Davis from 2004 to 2012.

Early life and education Renny Pritikin was born in Brooklyn, New York to a nonreligious Jewish family. an alternative space internationally renowned for its presentations of new visual art, interdisciplinary performance, video, literature and music.

Pritikin worked at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1992 to 2004;

In 1995, he received a United States Information Agency fellowship to tour and lecture in Japan and the Koret Israel Prize, a fellowship to visit Israel. In 1999 he travelled to Taiwan as a juror for the Ninth Annual International Print and Drawing Biennale at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. In 2001 he was the curator chosen to represent the United States at the Cuenca (Ecuador) Bienal, and in 2003 he lectured in three cities in New Zealand as a Fulbright Fellow.

In addition to the California College of the Arts, he has taught art administration and artist professional skills training at San Francisco State University, and Golden Gate University.

Publications Fourth Gear City Limits (Two Windows Press, Berkeley, 1976) All These Trees (e.g. Press, Oakland, 1985) How We Talk (Collective Foundation POD Press, 2007) A Quiet in Front of the Best Western, (Museum Quality Press, 2014) At Third and Mission: A Life Among Artists (Museum Quality Press, 2023)