Joseph del Pesco
An independent curator, art journalist, and perennial collaborator. While he's organized projects and exhibitions for museums internationally, he has also disbursed artist grants, presented video programs in private homes, distributed posters and other ephemera through informal channels, and produced content for the internet.

Recent projects include an historical survey of San Francisco art magazines called the Circulation Desk, a traveling bitter bar brought to the homes of artists who've received rejection letters, and a $1000 Travel Grant. This Fall the Pickpocket Almanack, a program developed with SFMOMA, will travel to Paris (Bétonsalon) and Turin (Artissima), and The Feral Share will launch at the Headlands Center for the Arts—a collaboration with Chez Panisse chef Jerome Waag.

Past Collaborations have included a Co-Op Bar with Steve Lambert, a deck of cards with Mads Lynnerup, a sculpture garden carillon with Helena Keeffe, Byproducts with Marisa Jahn, The Secret Society with Carson Salter, Dots & Quotes No. 1 with Sam Gould and John Vitale, the Black Market Type & Print Shop with Scott Ponik, The Collective Foundation with Scott Oliver.

Research and journalism work includes the ongoing web-based Anecdote Archive, registering word-of-mouth as a vital distribution network of art related ideas, contributions to Open Space, the SFMOMA Blog and Specters of San Francisco Magazines for Independent Curators International. He also edited a conversation between artist Pedro Reyes and former Mayor of Bogotá, Antanas Mockus, and contributed an interview with A Constructed World for Byproduct, a forthcoming anthology on artists embedded in government or business, to be published by YYZ Books.