Evan J. Garza

curator, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts

A native of Houston, TX (b. 1982), Evan J. Garza is editor-at-large for *New American Paintings* and Curator at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts in Boston's South End. He recently began contributing to Flash Art and is a contributing writer and critic for *ART PAPERS, Art Lies*, and was the weekly "Museums + Galleries" columnist for *The Boston Phoenix* from 2008 -- 2009. He has organized several exhibitions nationally, and in January 2010 he was the inaugural curator for a new annual series of guest-curated exhibitions at the Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts (BCA). He was recently selected as a finalist for the inaugural Art Writing Workshop, a collaboration between the International Association of Art Critics/USA Section (AICA/USA) and Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program. In January 2010, Garza joined New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) as an individual member.