Mike Curran
Curatorial Projects
Area of Concern
09 - 10/2022
Public program with a site-specific installation, workshops, performances, and a publication centered around the emerald ash borer.
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Muckout
07 - 08/2022
Group exhibition guest curated at Waiting Room, presenting works of resiliency and remediation.
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Normal Residential Purposes
2021 - 2022Chroma: Northeast Minneapolis Arts District at MSP Airport
06 - 12/2022
Exhibition organized at MSP Airport, featuring the works of 59 artists based in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.
Featured artwork by Kevin Martinez Garrido.
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Featured artwork by Kevin Martinez Garrido.
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Open Call Cabaret
2017 - 2019
Monthly-ish program for emerging artists to get their work off the ground and in front of supportive audiences. Each show featured three artists from different genres performing 15-minute sets of works-in-progress; an open critique followed each.
Arts Writing
Cameron Downey: Lord Split Me Open
06/2023
Published in Art Papers, a review of Lord Split Me Open,
Cameron Downey’s solo exhibition at HAIR + NAILS.
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Sites Specific
03 - 05/2023
Series of writings
guest edited for the Walker Art Center’s Mn Artists, featuring contributions from April Stone, Torey Erin, Ana Diaz and Marina Kittaka, Za’Nia Coleman, and Mike Curran.
“In the spirit of 'placefulness,' this growing collection of writings gives access to local projects and practices that refuse the estrangement brought about by our techno-driven times, helping us find our way back to each other and the histories, realities, and futures we share.”
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“In the spirit of 'placefulness,' this growing collection of writings gives access to local projects and practices that refuse the estrangement brought about by our techno-driven times, helping us find our way back to each other and the histories, realities, and futures we share.”
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Off Script
02/23
An essay accompanying Peter Bonde Becker Nelson’s video installation Whiteness at Work at St. Olaf College’s Flaten Art Museum.
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What Can’t Be Buried: Unearthing Revival Field
09/21
At the former site of Mel Chin's landmark project in St. Paul: ecological grief, cycles of remediation, and what happens when we try to put waste out of sight.
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Additional Writing
2020 - 2023
Essays and reviews published with Mn Artists, Public Parking, MPLSART.COM and TEMP/reviews.
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