Dan Golden
Founder

Dan Golden is a Los Angeles-based artist, designer, and creative director. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Interior Design, Fast Company, and Elle, among others. Dan’s designs have been produced by leading manufacturers, including Stephanie Odegard, Swarovski, and CB2.

Jen Huh
Co-Founder

Jen Huh is a Los Angeles-based artist, designer, educator, and writer. Her large-scale textile pieces have been featured in Interior Design magazine and are on permanent display in the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. She formerly served as Director of First-Year Advising at Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College at The New School.

Amanda Quinn Olivar
Editor-in-Chief

I’ve always been driven by storytelling—connecting art, ideas, and people. At 10, I landed an interview with Andy Warhol during his magazine signing at Brentano’s bookstore in Los Angeles, in front of a crowd. It truly pushed me out of my comfort zone—it was awesome.​  Born and raised in L.A., I’ve collaborated on exhibitions across the country and produced films like Seeing Is Believing: Women Direct and Burnt Feathers, Broken Wings, created for Kids in the Spotlight, an organization empowering foster youth through filmmaking. Most recently, I helped bring Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow back to the New York stage.​ Serving on the boards of The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, Axial Theatre, The Chimaera Project and Friends of Zandra Rhodes lets me work alongside some seriously brilliant visionaries.

At the end of the day—we hope you stay curious, learn, share, and take a big jump forward with all of us here at Curator!

Saul Appelbaum
Digital Editor

Saul Appelbaum holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Master of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Chicago. He has worked with Harper’s Bazaar, Serpentine Gallery, ASICS, Marian Goodman Gallery, Elle, Tony Cragg, The Broad Museum, FGP Atelier, Museum of the African Diaspora, Heidi Klum, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, InStyle, Critical Inquiry, the Kunstmuseum Bern, Grazia, Snoop Dogg, Adam McKay’s Yellow Dot Studios, The Jewish Federation, Zión Moreno, Petzel Gallery, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Nato Thompson's The Alternative Art School and Dreaming in Public, Perry Ellis, The Visionaries Agency, Atlanta Art Fair, Mick Jenkins, TRANSFER Gallery, Ann Hamilton, The Columbus Museum of Art, de Sarthe Gallery, TCAmgmt, Diego Boneta, Rocco Castoro's SCNR, L’Officiel, Hirmer Verlag, Kids of Immigrants, Natalia Reyes, Vogue, The Singapore Art Museum, Numéro, and Pope.L.

John Olivar
Associate Editor

Freelance writer and editor John Olivar received a Pillsbury Grant for Creative Writing, distributed through the Santa Barbara Foundation.  His work has appeared in The Café Review (Portland, ME), Spectrum (Santa Barbara, CA), Storyville (Chigwell, UK) and other publications, as well as online at The American Center for Artists and elsewhere.

Sascha Behrendt
Contributor, London/New York

Editor Sascha Behrendt is a writer with an in-depth knowledge of arts and culture in the US and UK. Interviews and profiles include artists Stan Douglas, Arthur Jafa, Sakiko Nomura, Walter Van Beirendonck, Francesca Woodman and Wolfgang Tillmans. She writes for the Sasson Soffer Foundation in New York, and is currently working on a comedy thriller novel.

Camilla Boemio
Contributor, Rome

Camilla Boemio is an internationally published author, curator, and member of the AICA (International Arts Critics) based in Rome. In 2013, Boemio was the co-associate curator of PORTABLE NATION: Disappearance as Work in Progress – Approaches to Ecological Romanticism, the Maldives Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. In 2016, Boemio curated Diminished Capacity, the First Nigerian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Boemio’s recent curatorial projects include her role as co-associate curator at Pera + Flora + Fauna. The Story of Indigenousness and The Ownership of History, an official collateral event at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, 2022. Invitations to speak include the Tate Liverpool, MUSE Science Museum, and the Cambridge Festival 2021 at Crassh, in the UK.

Ricky Lee
Contributor, New York

Ricky Lee is a Brooklyn-based writer and curator, currently working as the Director of Communications at Petzel Gallery. He has directed public relations and marketing campaigns for publishers such as Abrams, Phaidon, The Vendome Press, and luxury brands such as Hermès of Paris. Lee was a founding editor and inaugural fashion director of Quincy Jones’s Vibe magazine and has worked as a journalist for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Andy Warhol’s Interview, 7 Days, Vogue, i-D, and The Los Angeles Times. He holds a Master of Arts degree in French from Middlebury College

Alex May
Contributor, Detroit

Alexandra May is a self-proclaimed life-long art and museum junkie. She attended her first art fair, Documenta, at age 10. She conducted her first artist interview with Andy Warhol at age 18. Although a Detroit transplant, she prides herself on being one of the city’s most avid art advocates. She serves on the Board of the Friends of African and African American Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.

Joan Agajanian Quinn
West Coast Correspondent

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Quinn is a journalist, producer, curator, collector and arts advocate. She was appointed the West Coast Editor of Interview magazine by Andy Warhol, was Society Editor of Hearst’s Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Editor at Steve Samiof’s Stuff Magazine, founding West Coast Editor of Condé Nast Traveler and has written for several of their magazines. Joan recently produced the documentary Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies, is currently the co-host of Beverly Hills View and has been the producer and host of the Joan Quinn Profiles for over 35 years.

Shristi Sainani
Contributor, India/Nigeria

Shristi Sainani is a curator, designer, researcher, and writer currently based in New Delhi, India, where she functions independently. Her interest lies in dismantling and assessing core concepts of exhibition making, specifically focusing on Contemporary Art churned through the diaspora of the Global South.

She also writes poetry, having published three books in the genre, and has contributed to several art and architectural forums. Her independent research focuses on collections and architecture of private art museums. Shristi's paper on inclusivity in museum spaces won the INSC Researchers Award in 2021.

Shristi is a formally trained architect. She completed her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney and her Master’s in Curatorial Studies from the University of Melbourne.

Nato Thompson
Contributor, New York/Philadelphia

Nato Thompson is an award winning author, curator, entrepreneur and self-described “cultural infrastructure builder”. He believes deeply in the power of art to galvanize new ideas and new forms of community.

Thompson began his career as Curator at MASS MoCA, where he completed numerous large-scale exhibitions such as The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, a survey of political art of the 1990s. He was the Chief Curator and then Artistic Director for the public art organization Creative Time in New York where he gained vast experience in the production of memorable public art such as Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot, Ramírez Jonas’s Key to the City, and Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures. At Creative Time he organized numerous summits on art and social justice. Thompson was a Partner at artw rld where he worked with contemporary artists to make high end digital artworks. He worked with Philadelphia Contemporary on a project to build a 21st century museum in Philadelphia. Thompson is currently the Founder and Director of The Alternative Art School, an online art school connecting the world's most visionary artists with working artists around the globe.

Natalie Varbedian
Contributor, Los Angeles

Natalie Varbedian is dedicated to examining changing conceptions of art and the disciplines of art history. She received her MA in art history from UC Davis while working as a teaching and research assistant. She has collaborated on exhibitions with several institutions, including the Bakersfield Museum of Art and the Fresno Museum. Natalie lives and works in Los Angeles, and her recent exhibition, Discovering Takouhi, is on view at the Armenian Museum of America in Boston.