Board Member
Azul Silverio is a transdisciplinary curator, writer, and arts administrator living and working in Tovangaar (Los Angeles). Azul joined the NPN network through their tenure at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), where she was the Assistant Director of Programming. Azul is invested in championing and building community with artists, curators, creatives, and cultural workers from LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and communities of color across Los Angeles and beyond.
Azul has held curatorial assistant and apprentice positions at 18th Street Arts Center, LACE, UCSB Special Collections Library, and the Getty Research Institute. With LACE, she co-curated ABUNDANCE (2024), an interdisciplinary and performance art festival held at the L.A. Dance Project. Azul was awarded a Leadership Institute fellowship in Visual Arts with the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC) (2023) and was an AllPaper Seminar inaugural fellow at the Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, Claremont, CA (2022). She contributed writing to the 60th Venice Biennale exhibition and catalogue, Straineri Ovunque/Foreigners Everywhere (2024) curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and has co-edited the LACE publication for CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak and Mutant Salon (2018). Azul holds BA degrees in Book Arts from the College of Creative Studies and in Chicana/o Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Azul currently resides in Los Angeles, California and is part of the curatorial team at the Hammer Museum.