Ana Briz

Ana Cristina Briz is a researcher, writer, and curator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California, located in the unceded territory of the Tongva peoples.  

The abolitionist imaginary informs her curatorial practice and research interests. 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 BIPOC in California. She is broadly interested in issues of displacement, mourning, and resistance in contemporary art and culture. Additional research interest include the exhibitionary complex, institutional critique, land art, body art, tactical biopolitics, and critical race theory.

Currently she is the curatorial assistant of Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics (September 7, 2024 – January 5, 2025), curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative. She is also the associate editor to the accompanying Beatriz da Costa book published by MIT Press. Her most recent projects and exhibitions include noé olivas: Gilded Dreams (February 28 – March 31, 2024), co-curated with artist noé olivas, at the Crenshaw Dairy Mart Gallery, Vanities Come to Dust: From Havana to Los Angeles, With Love (August 4 – 19, 2023), co-curated with artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy, at the University of Southern California, Lisa Alvarado: Pulse Meridian Foliation (April 1 – August 20, 2023), as curatorial assistant to curator Daniela Lieja Quintanar at REDCAT, and Star Montana’s mural East LA Landscape (2022) for the LAC+USC Restorative Care Village. Her writing has appeared online and in print in Flash Art Magazine, AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), and in exhibition catalogs for the Hammer Museum.

Briz is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and holds 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.

• M.A. University of Southern California, 2019
• B.A. Art History, Florida International University, 12/2016