| Meet the 2025/26 The Riviera Beach House Call for Entries Jury
Ana Briz is Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the AD&A Museum in UC Santa Barbara. Her research is situated in the field of performance, art, and visual culture in the United States, and focuses on queer, feminist, and anti-racist work by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in California. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity and an M.A. in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Art History from Florida International University.
Juan Silverio (they/she) is a writer, curator and cultural worker. They are invested in championing and building community with artists, curators, creatives, and cultural workers from LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and communities of color across Tovangaar (Los Angeles) and beyond. Juan currently resides in Los Angeles and is a curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum.
Deliasofia Zacarias (she/her) is a writer, curator, and arts administrator whose scholarship focuses on the intersection of art, politics, immersive storytelling, and emerging media and technologies. Currently the CEO & Director’s Office Executive Assistant and Curatorial Fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), she is also a Board Member of the Arts Administrators of Color Network. Deliasofia has held prior roles at LACMA as the Snap Research Fellow for the project LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives, and as a LACMA Emerging Art Professional (LEAP) Fellow. While at LACMA, she co-curated the exhibition Painting in the River of Angels: Judy Baca and The Great Wall (2023–2024) and worked on the retrospective exhibition Ed Ruscha/Now Then (2023–2024), co-organized with LACMA and the Museum of Modern Art. Deliasofia holds an MA in Art History from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, and a BA in Business Administration and Studio Art from Trinity University, San Antonio, TX.
Lauren Guilford is a curator, art historian, and writer in Santa Barbara. Guilford has a master’s in curatorial practices from USC, where she wrote a thesis on the history of alternative art spaces and a bachelor’s in art history from UC Santa Barbara. Guilford’s writing has been published in Frieze, Artillery, and Speciwomen. |
