Fostering contexts where art can change how we engage with the world around us.

I begin most projects with two questions: What kind of context allows art, artists and audiences to share an experience that can shift how we understand empathy, enjoyment or social engagement? And why does that matter?

I am an independent curator and editor based in New York. My work revolves around questions of identity and place, migration and memory, and, increasingly, how these are framed by our uneasy and often fractious relationship with the environment.

In London, I founded Spain NOW! in 2008, with its first public season in 2009. Across sixteen years of programmes, it brought contemporary culture from Spain to audiences through exhibitions, performance, music, film and a wide range of encounters across the arts.

My professional life has also encompassed cultural-policy research for Arts Council England and DCMS through my role as General Manager of the think tank Centre for Creative Communities, as well as work with the Family and Communities Programmes team at Tate Modern. Editorial practice has been another constant: I was Editor of SPN, at the time a groundbreaking digital culture and lifestyle magazine produced for the Spanish Tourist Office in London, Government of Spain.

These different strands — curatorial practice, cultural research, publishing, public engagement and exhibition-making — now come together through Molina Contemporary, the framework for my ongoing work. I am also a Nominator for the Prix Pictet and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

And, just in case you thought I might get bored, I have recently launched The City Withheld., a very personal photographic and textual impression of my new home, New York.

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