THE DIRT PALACE
WINTER 25/26 AIR BIOS
November Curator Cohort in collaboration with ODD-KIN Gallery
Open house & talk Saturday Nov 22nd
Abigail Satinsky is the Program Officer and Curator of Arts & Culture at the Wagner Foundation, based in Cambridge, MA. Formerly, she was the Curator & Head of Public Engagement at Tufts University Art Galleries where organized a variety of exhibitions and public projects including with artists Sofía Córdova, Museum of Capitalism, Faheem Majeed, Josh MacPhee, and Elizabeth James-Perry, amongst others, as well as co-curating Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities (with Erina Duganne), which toured nationally, and focused on the 1980s artist-activist campaign against US intervention in Central America and its ramifications in the present. At Tufts University Art Galleries, she was also the founding Program Director for the Collective Futures Fund, supporting artist-run projects in Greater Boston through The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Brittni Ann Harvey (b. 1992, RI) is a sculptor and textile-based artist and educator living and working in Fall River, MA. She has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge), NOW: Gallery (Lima), Someday (New York), and Anthony Greaney (Somerville), among others. Harvey is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art and holds a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Danni Shen is a curator and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is currently organizing exhibitions at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Upcoming exhibitions include "Knowledge is Myth: Chimeric Continuities" (Fall 2026). Previous curatorial roles include at The Kitchen, Empty Gallery, and Wave Hill in New York. She has been a visiting critic at RISD, NYU-ITP, and Cornell AAP, and was also Critic-in-Residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), as well as Curator-in-Residence at Residency Unlimited. Shen is a contributor to various publications including BOMB Magazine, Art in America, Heichi Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, AICA Magazine, and the Boston Art Review among others. She holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) Bard College.
Gee Wesley is an arts organizer born in Monrovia, Liberia, and based in Providence, RI, where he is a PhD student at Brown University in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. His work explores the relationship between publics and publications and how the cultural practices of Black diasporas inspire liberatory ways of redefining knowledge, transforming value, and restoring the past. Wesley held roles as a Curatorial Associate at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Program Director at Recess, Brooklyn; Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter, Queens; and Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Wesley has been adjunct faculty at Bennington College, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Yale School of Art. He is a cofounder of Ulises, a nonprofit art bookshop based in Philadelphia, and the founder of Afrophon', a project dedicated to contemporary African artists’ books, art books, and independent art publishing. Wesley received his MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991, MA) is an autodidactic artist who lives and works in Fall River, MA. Harvey’s recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Sick Metal, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; LEVEL LEVEL, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain; List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; An Anathema Strikes the Flesh of the Laborer, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY; and Arrows of Desire, with Faith Wilding, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; among others. Harvey is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kate Irvin is Curator and Head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum. Her current exhibition, on view now at the RISD Museum, is Liz Collins: Motherlode, which celebrates the richly varied career and work of the New York-based Queer feminist artist known for her bold abstract patterns, inventive use of materials, and radical experiments with fiber. Other recent exhibitions include Sensory Silhouettes: Experiencing South Asian Garments (2024) and Sensing Fashion (2023), both of which were curated in collaboration with RISD faculty and students as experimental projects exploring ways of creating displays of global fashion fostering immersive intimacy.
In 2022/2023, Irvin co-curated the initiative Inherent Vice with textile conservators Jessica Urick and Anna Rose Keefe, a project that comprised a year-long exhibition), deaccessioning and other collections-care activities, community-building conversations, and related RISD courses and creative output produced therein. As a whole, the project reframed collections care as a reparative, empathetic act that embraces both literal and metaphorical cracks as opportunities for revealing and making room for neglected narratives. Previously Irvin curated Repair and Design Futures (2018–2019), another year-long multidisciplinary exhibition and programming initiative that investigated mending as material intervention, metaphor, and as a call to action. With Markus Berger, she co-edited a related book Repair: Sustainable Design Futures, published by Routledge in 2022.
M. Rachael Arauz, Ph.D., is an independent curator of modern and contemporary art, with research interests across all media, especially under-recognized artists, movements, and materials. She has organized exhibitions and contributed to museum catalogues in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. She was co-curator of the 2019 exhibition In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969 for the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, and a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently working on projects for the MFA Boston and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Zach Ngin is an art worker and writer from San Francisco. They are currently the curatorial assistant at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where they organized the first US solo museum exhibitions of Kite (with Selby Nimrod) and Elif Saydam. They also serve as an art editor at n+1, and their writing has appeared in Momus, C Magazine, Boston Art Review, e-flux, and The Amp, among other publications. They live in Providence.