Hertz, Betti-Sue
Betti-Sue Hertz became Director and Chief Curator at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery in 2019. Her curatorial and scholarly work focuses on the intersection of critical visual culture, transnational exchange, and socially relevant issues. Hertz was Director, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx (1992–98); Curator of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art (2000–2008); Director of Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2008–15); and Public Arts Consultant, TLS Landscape Architecture (2015–20). Hertz has organized more than sixty exhibitions during her career. She was a member of Stanford Art Institute’s Creative Cities Working Group (2016–19) and a founding member of RepoHistory (1989–2000). Hertz received a B.A. from Goddard College, an M.F.A. from Hunter College, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York. She has taught social art history and theory at Stanford University, San Francisco Art Institute, and University of California, Berkeley.
Kirsten L. Scheid is the curator of the exhibition Partisans of the Nude held at the Wallach Art Gallery from October 6, 2023 through January 14, 2023. She is a Professor of Anthropology and Art Studies at the American University of Beirut and researches the anthropology of modern and contemporary Arab art, imaginations/ontologies, de/coloniality, materiality, gender, Islam, art theory and historiography, and cross-cultural art junctures. Recent publications include Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950, (Indiana University Press, 2022) and "Palestinian Art Talk: A Local Lexicon for Global Art Production," in In Motion: The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement(Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2022). Scheid co-curated The Arab Nude: The Artist as Awakener (American University of Beirut, 2016), the ninth edition of the Jerusalem show Jerusalem: Actual and Possible, (Al Ma'mal, Jerusalem, 2018), and Historical Modernisms (ArteEast’s Virtual Gallery, 2008). She is also co-founder of the Anthropology Society in Lebanon (ASIL) in Beirut (since 2006) and co-founder of a cultural resource center and an Arabic children’s book line Hikayat Walad min Bayrut (Stories of a Child from Beirut, 2004).