Curators-in-Residence: Tiffany Harker & Iris Williamson

CFAR is delighted to welcome Tiffany Harker and Iris Williamson as 2021-22 Curators-in-Residence. Tiffany and Iris will present Habits Of Denial: A Series of Programs on Access. Read their curatorial introduction to the series and about the upcoming programming here.

Tiffany Harker is Partner and Director of HOLDING Contemporary. She is a Project Manager for the Percent for Art Program with the Oregon Arts Commission, Special Projects at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Administrative Coordinator for Gather:Make:Shelter, and Board President of the Contemporary Arts Council at the Portland Art Museum. Harker has worked in contemporary art museums, galleries, and nonprofit organizations in San Francisco, CA including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crown Point Press, and Fraenkel Gallery where she was Artist Liaison to the Estate of Diane Arbus, Sophie Calle, Christian Marclay, Alec Soth, and Hiroshi Sugimoto among others. After relocating to Portland, OR in 2016, Harker worked as Project Manager for Converge 45’s Ann Hamilton’s habitus installation in 2018 and became partner at HOLDING Contemporary in 2019.  

Iris Williamson is a curator, arts administrator, and artist. She is the Founding Partner and Director of HOLDING Contemporary in Portland, OR. In addition, she directs and curates the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Southern Indiana and teaches at Portland State University. Previous curatorial projects include enter:gallery (NYC), Dugg Dugg (Charlotte, NC), Southern Holiday (Charlotte, NC), and programming for the city Charlotte during the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Williamson has held the positions of Founding Program Director at Converge 45, Assistant Director and Curator at Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, and Associate Director at Hap Gallery—all in Portland, Oregon. She worked also Assistant Director at Freight + Volume in NYC. Williamson received an MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research from Pacific Northwest College of Art, a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Florida, and a certificate in Museum Studies from Northwestern University. 

This residency is made possible by the Ford Family Foundation.

 

Image caption: Installation view of CARRIAGE at Vacation NYC on 24A Orchard Street in New York from September 6 – 28, 2019 presented by HOLDING Contemporary, an experimental gallery based in Portland, featuring the works of Jovencio de la Paz, Dru Donovan, André Magaña, Derek Franklin, Tabitha Nikolai, Jess Perlitz, and Sarah Wertzberger.