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Betti-Sue Hertz (Historian/Art Curator)
Betti-Sue Hertz is a senior contemporary art curator and art historian with award-winning exhibitions in contemporary international art that have attracted culturally and economically diverse audiences. Since the mid-1980s, the breadth of her exhibits span contemporary art in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America; including solo exhibitions of mid-career artists.

Bio
Born in New York, 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 (ABD, 2000).

Curator
Her career as a curator of contemporary art started in 1985 with her 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) and then Director of its Longwood Art Project (1992-1998). In 1999 she served as 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). She teaches at California for the College of Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Exhibitions and Publications:
(1991) Las Casitas: An Urban Cultural Alternative, Experimental Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; traveled to the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

(1994) Beyond the Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants guest curator, Bronx Museum of the Arts (catalogue: ISBN-10: 0917535227)

(1996) Bronx Spaces, section curator, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx (catalogue).

(1999) Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s, co-curator (with Lydia Yee), Bronx Museum of the Arts(catalogue: ISBN-10: 091753526X).

(2002) Axis Mexico: Common Objects and Cosmopolitan Actions, San Diego Museum of Art (catalogue: ISBN-10: 0937108294).

(2004) 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. Received the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. (catalogue :ISBN-10: 0937108332)

(2007-2008) Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, traveling to Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa and the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (catalogue: ISBN-10: 0937108375).

(2007-2008) Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes, San Diego Museum of Art (catalogue: ISBN-10: 3791340557).

(2008) Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (catalogue: ISBN-10: 0982678908).

(2011)Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are Well, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (catalogue: ISBN-10: 0982678924).

(2011) Audience as Subject, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (catalogue: ASIN: B00E3U38JS).

(2011) The Matter Within: Contemporary Art of India, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, (catalogue: ISBN-10: 0982678940).

(2012) 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.

(2013) Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

(2013) Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2013. Recipient of the 2015 Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Special Achievement.

(2014) Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2014, (catalogue: ISBN-10: 0982678975). Co-curator with Dominic Willsdon and Frank Smigiel.

(2014) Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou travelled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Co-curator with Xiaoyu Weng and Ruijun Shen. (catalogue forthcoming)

(2015) A Special Curatorial Project with Rirkrit Tiravanija: The Way Things Go, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2015, collaborating curator, (brochure).