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 - 2022
Backyard pop-up installation space with shows by various Twin Cities-based artists.

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Chroma: 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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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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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 ArtistsPublic Parking, MPLSART.COM and TEMP/reviews.

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