Juan Silverio

Juan Silverio is a curator and arts administrator. They are invested in championing and building community with artists, curators, creatives, and cultural workers from LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and communities of color across Los Angeles (Tovangaar) and beyond. Currently the Assistant Director of Programs at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Juan joined LACE in 2019 as an apprentice, and now runs all exhibitions, programs, and operations. With LACE, recently they co-curated ABUNDANCE (2024), an interdisciplinary and performance art festival held at the L.A. Dance Project. Juan joined the arts and culture field by way of the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program, holding curatorial internships throughout Southern California at the Getty Research Institute, Self-Help Graphics & Art, and the 18th Street Arts Center. They were 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). A member of the National Performance Network (NPN) Board of Directors, Juan contributed writing to the 60th Venice Biennale exhibition and catalogue, Stranieri Ovunque/Foreigners Everywhere (2024), curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and has co-edited the LACE publication for CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak and Mutant Salon (2018). Juan holds BA degrees in Book Arts from the College of Creative Studies and in Chicana/o Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born and raised in a Mexican Zapotec family in Koreatown, Los Angeles, Juan currently resides in Los Angeles.