Join us at 5:30PM on April 15 for a conversation between Hayal Pozanti and Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The talk will take place during the opening reception for Pozanti’s solo exhibition “Pleasures Newly Found”, on view until May 31, 2025.

Rita Gonzalez is the Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) where she has recently curated Simone Leigh (2024), Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It (2021); Matthew Barney: REPRESSIA (decline) (2023); and co-curated Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine (2023–24). Previous projects include Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement (2008); Asco: Elite of the Obscure (2011); Agnés Varda in Californialand (2013–14); In Production: Art and the Studio System (2019–20); and Christian Marclay: Sound Stories (2019), among other exhibitions and programs. She was the Lila Wallace Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1997–99) and a fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (2018). Gonzalez has been on the curatorial team for Prospect 3 New Orleans (2014–15), the first Current L.A. Biennial (2016), and the Gwangju Biennale (2018).