Erin Christovale

Erin Christovale is a Los Angeles–based film programmer and curator at the Hammer Museum. She is the cofounder of the international experimental film program Black Radical Imagination (2016), which has screened in spaces such as MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico. Exhibitions organized by Christovale include a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, New York; Memoirs of a Watermelon Woman and A Subtle Likeness (both 2016) at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles; and S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, where she previously served as curator. During her time at the Hammer she has organized numerous exhibitions, including the critically acclaimed Made in LA 2018 with Anne Ellegood, No Humans Involved (2021), and the retrospective Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation with Meg Onli and the critically acclaimed exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal. Her curatorial projects have been covered in Artforum, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, and she has been profiled in publications including Time and Essence and featured on KCET and she was awarded the New Leadership Award by ArtTable in 2020, she completed the Curatorial Center for Leadership/Studio Museum in Harlem’s Forum from 2021-2023 and she is an advisor of the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute.