Dena Beard

Formerly, Beard was director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. She was executive director of The Lab in San Francisco from 2014–23 and assistant curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from 2007–14.

Beard has organized hundreds of projects with artists such as Lutz Bacher, Sadie Barnette, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ellen Fullman, Dora García, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Anna Halprin, Asher Hartman, Annea Lockwood, Barry McGee, Silke Otto-Knapp, Brontez Purnell, Wadada Leo Smith, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Beard holds an MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture from Scripps College.