Ezequiel Olvera

MA Curatorial '26
Ezequiel Olvera is a curator and artist whose practice investigates the transnational intersections of African and Latinx diasporas in contemporary art. As director of Court Space, a site-specific curatorial project, he interrogates public space through installation, critical discourse, and historical research, bridging institutional frameworks with community-oriented praxis. Previously, he held roles at the Underground Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

Olvera’s scholarship centers on diasporic dialogues, after post-colonialism, and multi-cultural identities, articulated through writings published in X-TRA and contributions to platforms like East of Borneo. In 2023, he presented on organizing guerilla exhibitions in public space as a guest lecturer at UC Santa Barbara’s Organizing as Practice panel. By foregrounding site-responsive interventions and collaborative methodologies, his work challenges hegemonic narratives, advocating for pluralistic histories within global contemporary art discourse.