Natasha Boas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Natasha Boas

Art curator

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1964

Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Profession: curator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Natasha Boas is a French-American contemporary art curator, writer, and critic.
She has taught art history and curatorial studies at Yale, Stanford, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Her exhibition on the forgotten Modernist Algerian artist, Baya Mahieddine "Baya: Woman of Algiers" 2018 at the Grey Art Gallery NYU garnered important international critical attention.
In 2017 she was featured in Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Vertighost" playing the role of herself, an art historian.
She also authored the Facebook Artist in Residence book on the recent history of Art and Tech in the Bay Area for the 5th anniversary of Facebook's artist in residency program.An adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts, she is an expert in the art of California countercultures, Modernist avant-guardes, the Mission School and Outsider artists.
She has been involved in exhibitions and public programs at museums and galleries internationally including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Fondation Maeght, Mucem, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
She teaches Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures at UC Berkeley.