Tracy Fenix

Tracy Fenix is a curator focused on the intersection between public art and urban planning. Tracy founded “Mud Kin,” an ongoing curatorial mapping project focused on adobe and ecological land-based Indigenous and Latinx projects. They are currently the Exhibition Project Manager at the California African American Museum (CAAM) in support of the museum’s 2024 reopening. Tracy has also worked with the City of Los Angeles Public Arts Team to support management of new city-wide public art initiatives including an interactive Memorial to the Victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre in El Pueblo and emerging Indigenous-led ecological public art policy research. Previously the Artist Engagement & Archive Manager at Visual AIDS, New York (2018–2021), Tracy built the Archive Project and Artist+ Registry to a successful Andrew W. Mellon Community-based Archives grant. Select awarded fellowships include a Times Square Alliance Fellowship, New York, NY (2022);a Leadership Institute Fellowship at the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC) (2019); and a Curatorial Fellowship at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2016). Recent writing contributions include texts on Bouchra Khalili and Emmi Whitehorse in the 60th Venice Biennale exhibition and catalogue, Stranieri Ovunque/Foreigners Everywhere (2024), curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Tracy holds an MA in Curatorial Practices & the Public Sphere and a Master’s of Urban Planning (MUP) from the University of Southern California, as well as an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Born and raised in El Paso, Tracy is a queer native Tejana who resides itinerantly.