2016

Heng-Gil Han

Project Director & Curator, Jamaica Flux

Heng-Gil Han is the founder of Jamaica Flux: Workspaces and Windows. He directed the exhibition in 2004, 2007 and 2010 when he was serving as the Visual Arts Director and Curator for the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (2002 – 2012). Han is currently working on the fourth edition which will be mounted in the spring of 2016.  Among other things, Jamaica Flux: Workspace and Windows serves to amplify artists’ voices in the larger public discourse by providing the public with access to contemporary art and by broadening artists’ channels of communication with the public. In addition to developing Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows, Han has successfully presented a number of well-recognized exhibitions at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), including Global Priority (2002), which traveled to Taipei, Seoul and San Francisco (2003–2004); LivePictures: Digital World Animates Contemporary Art (2006); Metro Poles (2008) and others. He also mounted exhibitions exploring issues of identity, gender and cultural ideology/politics in the context of today’s hyper-mental and media-dominated environment. For example, Wangechi Mutu (2002), Serene Beauty: Intersections between Sublime and Zen (2003) and Reality/Fiction (2004) are exhibitions that discussed cultural conditions of transmitted and constructed reality.

Beyond Criticism and Arts of Postproduction and Post-studio Practices >

Regenerative Jamaica Flux >

A Conversation between Heng-Gil Han and Miwon Kwon >

Setting a Framework for the Intersection of Art and Life – An Interim Report of Jamaica Flux >

Kalia Brooks

Co-Curator, Jamaica Flux 2016

Kalia Brooks is a New York based writer, curator, and educator who currently teaches in the Photography and Imaging Department at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Brooks is presently a PhD candidate in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Institute for Doctoral  Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, ME. Previously she was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical  Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program, received an MA in Curatorial Practice from  the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco and a BA in Sociology and Geography  from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has curated and co-curated numerous  exhibitions in the United States and abroad including exhibitions at the Museum of  Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Brooklyn, NY; Building 110: Lower Manhattan  Cultural Council’s Art Center on Governor’s Island, NY; The Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah  Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY; Rush  Arts Gallery, New York, NY; California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and SuperDeluxe  and Arts Initiative Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

She has lectured extensively in public talks and symposia including the College Arts Association  national conference; Society of Photographic Education national conference; David C. Driskell  Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; New York University, New York, NY; La  Sorbonne, Paris, France; La Bellevilloise Culture Center, Paris, France; and the Whitney Museum  of American Art, New York, NY. Brooks has written and served as photo editor for publications  including Art South Africa Magazine; Exposure, The Journal for the Society of Photographic  Education; Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, W.W.  Norton; Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs, Harper Collins; The Light Work Annual,  Light Work; and Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, W.W. Norton.

2010

Heng-Gil Han

Project Director & Curator, Jamaica Flux

(see bio above)

2007

Kòan Jeff Baysa

Co-Curator, Jamaica Flux 2007

Kóan-Jeff Baysa, Guest Curator, is an independent curator, writer, art collector, practicing physician, and an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Curatorial Studies. A contributing writer for New York Arts Magazine and the online publication Flavorpill, he has also written for Art Asia Pacific and is the editor of the online art magazine art:pulse. He has curated exhibitions for the London Biennial, the Los Angeles International Biennial, and recently organized shows in Beijing, Dublin, and Manila as well as for the United Nations. Dr. Baysa is on the boards of The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University, Art Omi International Artist Colony, the Asian American Art Centre, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock.

Juliana Driever

Co-curator, Jamaica Flux 2007

Juliana Driever, Guest Curator, is an independent curator/writer and the Assistant Director of Gigantic ArtSpace, a multi media gallery in TriBeCa. She has previously held positions at the Roger Brown Study Collection (Chicago) and The Contemporary Center at the American Folk Art Museum. She has extensive experience with the estate of Henry Darger, and has served as the Collection Manager for The Henry Darger Collection at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago). Juliana holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently completing her MA in Modern Art: Critical Studies at Columbia University.

Jamaica Flux and Art in the Public Realm >

Heng-Gil Han

Project Director & Curator, Jamaica Flux

(see bio above)

Aniko Erdosi

Curatorial Assistant, Jamaica Flux 2007

Aniko Erdosi, Curatorial Assistant, is an independent curator, art historian and writer. Currently, she is working on a large scale retrospective exhibition of Agnes Denes in the Ludwig Museum Budapest, in 2008. Originally from Budapest, Hungary, she organized several exhibitions, projects and presentations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and in the United States. She was the 2005 winner of the Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship, a CGSD Fellow at the Rutgers University in Spring-Fall 2005, a curator in residence at IAAB in Basel (2004), and at ISCP in New York (2006). A 2003 recipient of the Kállai Ernö Fellowship for Art Criticism in Hungary, she publishes her reviews and critical essays on contemporary art internationally since 2001. Her essays and reviews appeared in Sculpture Magazine, NYArts Magazine, Zingmagazine, Balkon Magazine, and Praesens-Central European Art Review.

Visibility, transparency, diplomacy, security… Notes on artistic experiments on the streets of Jamaica in 2007 >

Olu Oguibe

Co-curator, Jamaica Flux 2007

Olu Oguibe, Guest Curator, is Associate Professor of Art and African-American studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, a senior fellow of the Smithsonian Institution, and a fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York. He is also an artist, international curator, theorist, and public intellectual. To date his work has been shown in major museums and galleries around the world including the Whitney Museum of American Art; Whitechapel Gallery and the Barbican Center, London; Migros Museum, Zurich; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, among many others; as well as in the Havana, Busan, and Johannesburg biennials, and satellite exhibitions at the Venice biennial. His public art works may be found in Japan, Korea, Germany and Nigeria. Oguibe has served as curator or co-curator for numerous international exhibitions including Century City at the Tate Modern, London, in 2001; the 2nd Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art in Genoa and Albisola, Italy in 2003; Vidarte 2002: International Video and Media Art Festival at the Palacio Postal, Mexico City in 2002; Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa in and out of Africa for the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001, and Five Continents and One City: 3rd International Salon of Painting at the Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City in 2000.

The Open Source Millennium and the Artist in Public >

2004

Christopher K. Ho

Curator, Jamaica Flux 2004

Melvin Marshall

Curator, Jamaica Flux 2004

Edwin Ramoran

Curator, Jamaica Flux 2004

Sara Reisman

Curator, Jamaica Flux 2004

Heng-Gil Han

Project Director & Curator, Jamaica Flux

(see bio above)