Mike Curran
Mike Curran is a curator and arts writer from Portland, Maine, living in Minneapolis. His essays and reviews have been featured in Art Papers, Mn Artists, Public Parking, MPLSART.COM, TEMP/reviews, and St. Olaf College’s Flaten Art Museum. He has curated programming at artist-run galleries including Waiting Room and Normal Residential Purposes, a pop-up installation space he organized out of his backyard. With his frequent collaborator Tom Bierlein, he was awarded a 2022 Early-Career Artist Project Grant from Forecast Public Art, through which they organized Area of Concern—a public program at Crosby Farm Regional Park in St. Paul, Minnesota, centered on ecological grief.
He holds a B.A. in geography and urban studies from Macalester College, and currently works as the communications coordinator of the Minnesota Orchestra.
He holds a B.A. in geography and urban studies from Macalester College, and currently works as the communications coordinator of the Minnesota Orchestra.
Photograph by Maya Rait.