Diverse Discourse Lecture: Alex Klein

Join DiverseWorks at MATCH in Matchbox 1 on March 20 at 6:30 p.m. for the Spring 2024 Diverse Discourse Lecture with Alex Klein, Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin. Admission is free.

Diverse Discourse brings national curators, artistic directors, and critics to Houston to present a free public lecture and conduct studio visits with Houston-area artists, performers, and writers.

Houston artists working in any discipline may apply online for a studio visit with Alex. The studio visit application deadline is Friday, March 1, 2024.

ABOUT ALEX KLEIN
Alex Klein is the Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin where she works alongside the curatorial team to shape the exhibition program at the Jones Center and steward the sculpture park at Laguna Gloria. She is currently working on projects with artists including Lubaina Himid, Guadalupe Maravilla, and Manik Raj Nakra. Her survey exhibition of Carl Cheng’s genre-defying practice opens in Austin in Fall 2024. Prior to her current role, she was the Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE ’60) Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (ICA). During her eleven years at ICA she originated numerous exhibitions, publications, public programs, and online initiatives with artists including Linda Goode Bryant, Ane Graff, Barbara Kasten, Michelle Lopez, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Sondra Perry, Suki Seokyeong Kang, and Trevor Shimizu. Previously she held positions in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hillman Photography Initiative, the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California (USC), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She is also a founding member of the arts workers advocacy group Museums Moving Forward. Klein received her MFA from UCLA, Los Angeles; her MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London; and her BA in Art History from Columbia University, New York.