Joseph del Pesco

Joseph del Pesco
Birth name	Joseph Thomas del Pesco
Born	December 29, 1975 Wilmington, Delaware
Nationality	American
Field	curator
Training	California College of the Arts
Awards	Jerome Foundation Fellowship, Banff Curatorial Residency, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebuadengo residency

Joseph Del Pesco is a contemporary art curator and arts journalist based in San Francisco, California. He holds a masters degree in curatorial practice from the California College of the Arts. In 2006 he was awarded a curatorial residency at the Banff Centre. Along with artist Scott Oliver, del Pesco founded the San Francisco Bay Area based Shotgun Review, later wrapped into an exhibition project at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts called the Collective Foundation, a "research and development organization offering services to artists and arts organizations.".

Career

Del Pesco is currently the Program Director of the Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco, and previously worked as a curator for Artists Space in New York. He has curated exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection at the University of California, Davis with curator Renny Pritikin, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the de Young Art Center. In 2009 he organized an experimental school-without-walls called the Pickpocket Almanack with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As an artist, del Pesco was chosen to participate in the Renaissance Society's 2002 group show, Watery, Domestic.

Publications

Del Pesco has also published a variety of interviews with contemporary social practice artists such as Lee Walton, Jon Rubin, and Amy Balkin. His writing has been published in Flash Art, Fillip, NUKE, X-Tra, Proximity, NERO, and TENbyTEN Magazines.

External links

• Official Website
• SFMOMA Blog
• The Collective Foundation
• Interview with Fillip
• Anecdote Archive
• Circulation Desk