Betti-Sue Hertz is currently Director and Chief Curator at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University since 2019. She was Director of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2008-2015), Curator of Contemporary Art at San Diego Museum of Art (2000-2008) and Director, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, NY (1992-1998). Exhibition highlights include Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa; Dissident Futures; Audience as Subject; Renée Green: Endless Dreams; and Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark. Hertz was Lecturer in American Studies at Stanford University (2016-2019) and Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School, San Francisco Art Institute (2011-2019). Trained as an art historian and artist, her curatorial and scholarly projects are fueled by the intersection of visual aesthetics and socially relevant ideas with a particular interest in relational structures and comparative propositions on contemporary topics. She is currently preparing an exhibition which features perspectives and responses to the global phenomenon of mass protests, and recuperative strategies of resistance.