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Rita Gonzalez is the Teri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She has curated numerous important exhibitions including Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Universal History of Infamy, Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection; and Agnès Varda in Californialand, among others.

Joining LACMA in 2006, she has served as interim Department Head of Contemporary Art from 2016 to 2019. Previously, she was an adjunct curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center where she contributed to the A Ver: Revisioning Art History series. Additionally, she was a co-curator of the 2018 Gwangju Biennale, the 2014 Prospect New Orleans triennial, and the 2006 California Biennial.