Risa Puleo is an Associate at SLA. She is a Tejana art historian and curator specializing in the link between Indigenous art and ecology, as well as U.S. National Parks.

Risa resides in Chicago, Illinois


EDUCATION

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Ph.D. Candidate: Art History (A.B.D.)

Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Masters of Art: Curatorial Studies

City University of New York, Hunter College
New York, NY
Masters of Art: Art History


ACADEMIC TEACHING

–Northwestern University
–Northwestern Prison Education Program (at Logan Correctional Institute)
–School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Department of Art History
–University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History


SELECT PROJECTS

Counterpublic Triennial 2023
2020–2023, Eight sites along Jefferson Avenue: St. Louis, MO

Curators:
–Risa Puleo
–Allison Glenn
–Diya Vij
–New Red Order
–Dream the Combine

Commissioned artists:
–Cannupa Hanska Luger
–Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith
–Raven Chacon
–Anita Fields
–X
–General Sisters
–jackie sumell
–Juan William Chavez.


Raul de Nieves: A Window to the See
2023, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Seattle, WA


Raul de Nieves: Eternal Return and the Obsidian Heart
2020, Museum of Contemporary Art: Miami, FL


Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the American Justice System
2020, Tufts University: Boston, MA
2018, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Houston, TX


Monarchs: Brown and Native Artists in the Path of the Butterfly
2019, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art: Overland Park, KS
2018, Museum of Contemporary Art: North Miami, FL
2018, Blue Star Contemporary and Southwest School of Art: San Antonio, TX
2017, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art: Omaha, NE


ARTPACE 18.1: Spring 2018 International Artists-in-Residence Program
International Artist: Kapwani Kiwanga, Paris
National Artist: rafa esparza, Los Angeles, CA
Texas Artist: Carlos Rosales-Silva, El Paso, TX


Risa’s full academic and curatorial CV is available upon request.