TL;DR:
I curate exhibitioNs and write about contemporary art.

Ariel Zaccheo is a curator and writer working in San Francisco. She graduated with a BFA in Art History from the University of Utah in 2011, and with an MA in Exhibition and Museum Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2013. Her thesis, titled In the Temple of the Screen: Religiosity and Pedagogy in Cult Cinema, was awarded the Excellence in Scholarship Masters Thesis award. Ariel has been the co-curator of the Artist’s Television Access Window Gallery since 2013, a volunteer-run exhibition space and micro cinema in the busy Mission district of San Francisco. She has worked at the Museum of Craft and Design since 2013, promoted from Assistant Curator to Curator in 2020, and to her current position of Curatorial Director in 2023.

Her research is focused on queer, feminist, and transgressive visual art strategies, with a specific emphasis on craft and video as media for radical activism. In 2019, she curated a five-person group exhibition at the Museum of Craft and Design, Interior/Exterior, served as one of three jurors for Bridging the Gap: Contemporary Craft Practices at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Tennessee, and published a brief article in American Craft Magazine. In 2020, she was appointed to the Board of Artists Television Access, and her writing was published in Surface Design Journal and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles. In 2021, her writing appeared in Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and she co-curated Mode Brut, an exhibition featuring more than 50 artists for the Museum of Craft and Design. In 2023, she co-curated a group show of 23 underrepresented artists in San Francisco, Fight and Flight with esteemed professor, curator, and writer Jacqueline Francis PhD.

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