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Betti-Sue Hertz is an American art historian and an established curator with award-winning exhibitions specializing in contemporary art internationally.

BACKGROUND

Hertz studied art and art history at Bard College and Goddard College. She received her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York, and pursued a doctorate at the program in art history at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

CAREER Her career as a curator of contemporary art started in 1985 when she began her first position as Executive Director at the Bronx River Art Center in New York City. She then moved on in 1987 to become program director at the Bronx Council on the Arts (1987-1991). Subsequent positions in New York City include Director of Longwood Art Project (1992-1998) and Interim Director of Development at the Thread Waxing Space (1999). In 2000, Hertz moved to the West Coast to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Diego Museum of Art (2000-2008), and then Director of Visual Arts at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2009-2015).

During her career she has curated a wide-range of exhibits that have received national and in some cases international acclaim, including Axis Mexico: Common Objects and Cosmopolitan Actions, San Diego Museum of Art (catalogue), 2002; Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art; traveled to the Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana (catalogue), 2004. Received the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award; Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, traveling to Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa and the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (catalogue), 2007-2008;Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes, San Diego Museum of Art (catalogue), 2008; Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (catalogue), 2010;Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (catalogue), 2010; Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are Well, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (catalogue), 2011; Audience as Subject, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (catalogue), 2010 and 2012; The Matter Within: Contemporary Art of India, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, (catalogue), 2011; Nayland Blake: Free!Love!Tool!Box!, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2012. Received the 2013 2nd Place Award for a Non Profit/ Alternative Gallery from the International Art Critics Association-USA.