Partnership Residency
We are honored to announce that Christian Viveros-Fauné, the 2022-23 Curator of Converge 45, is in residence with us in July 2022. During his stay Christian will be focusing on a combination of writing and community building. We are excited to be in support of both Christian’s creative practice and to begin a partnership relationship with Converge 45.
The Stelo leadership team seeks to responsively engage with partners that are in alignment with our values and goals. By partnering with Converge 45 we are supporting their goals of enriching lives through contemporary art while connecting the Pacific Northwest to the global arts community. In fall of 2023 the downtown Stelo flex space will serve as a host venue for a group exhibition featuring local artists, as part of Christian’s Social Forms Converge 45 programming.
ABOUT THE RESIDENT
Christian Viveros-Fauné (Santiago, Chile, 1965) has worked as a gallerist, art fair director, art critic, and curator since 1994. He was awarded the University of South Florida’s Kennedy Family Visiting Fellowship in 2018, a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Grant in 2009 and named Critic in Residence at the Bronx Museum in 2011. He co-founded The Brooklyn Rail in 1999, wrote art criticism for the Village Voice from 2008 to 2016, was the Art and Culture Critic for artnet news from 2016 to 2018, and has additionally served as Chief Critic for Artland and Sotheby’s in other words. He has lectured widely at institutions such as Yale University, Pratt University and Holland’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie. He currently serves as Curator-at-Large at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum and writes for the Village Voice 2.0. He was recently appointed Artistic Director for the 2023 Converge 45 biennial (Portland, Oregon). He is also the author of several books. His most recent, Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art, was published by David Zwirner Books in 2018.
ABOUT THE CONVERGE 45 PARTNERSHIP
Converge 45’s Social Forms biennial programming will be hosted in venues across Portland - including Stelo - and will include regional, national, and international artists. Mark your calendars now for a weekend of art and celebration beginning Thursday, August 24, 2023.