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Abaseh Mirvali, Executive Director, Chief Curator & CEO of Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) in conversation with Wendy Chang, Director of the Rennie Collection and Museum on February 12, 2019 for the opening of Lara Favaretto at MCASB.

Wendy Chang has been the director of the Rennie Collection since 2006 and is founding director of Rennie Museum. She formalized operations of the collection and established all aspects of the museum’s operations to support the bold and rapid growth of both. Under her stewardship, the museum has staged a diverse array of stunning and complex exhibitions with artists such as Martin Creed, Lara Favaretto, Mona Hatoum, and Kerry James Marshall. To realize the museum's mandate of providing accessibility to arts and culture, she developed its internship, education and engagement programs. She also serves as catalogue series editor and lead designer, overseeing all facets of the publication program.

Prior to her current position, she worked extensively with leading institutions and collections worldwide, spending nearly fifteen years producing projects and presenting exhibitions with a diverse group of artists including John Baldessari, Glenn Brown, George Condo, Peter Doig, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Juan Munoz, Shirin Neshat, Richard Prince, Edward Ruscha, Kenny Scharf, Jeff Wall, Christopher Williams, Christopher Wool, Andrea Zittel, and the estate of Bas Jan Ader.

Abaseh Mirvali is the Executive Director, Chief Curator, and CEO at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara, California, USA. Previously she worked as an internationally-recognized independent contemporary art and architecture curator and project producer with a career-long commitment to civic engagement and public service through innovative collaborations between contemporary art initiatives and the community at large. In 2018, Mirvali curated the show of Dubai-based Iranian artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian, presented at the 13,000-square-foot Officine Nord at the OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin, Italy, and co-edited the publication of the exhibition, with Corraini Edizioni.

Mirvali is the author of the concept and program development of the 2013 edition of The Biennial of the Americas, where she served as CEO, Executive Director and Comisaria from 2011 to 2013. She was the Chief Curator of Draft Urbanism, an innovative and groundbreaking exhibition of urban architectural interventions. Between 2005 and 2009, Mirvali was the Executive Director of the Colección/Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, where she consolidated and developed one of the most distinguished collections of contemporary art for a private institution in Latin America.

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