Joseph del Pesco

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Joseph del Pesco

Born	December 29, 1975 Wilmington, Delaware
Nationality	American
Field	curator
Training	California College of Art
Awards	Banff Curatorial Residency

Joseph Del Pesco is a contemporary art curator based in Oakland, California. He holds a masters degree in curatorial practice from the California College of the Arts and was awarded a curatorial residency at the Banff Centre in 2006^[1]. Along with artist Scott Oliver, the two formed the San Francisco Bay Area based Collective Foundation, a "research and development organization offering services to artists and arts organizations."^[2].

Del Pesco is currently a curator for Artists Space in New York and has curated exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection at the University of California, Davis with curator Renny Pritikin, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum.

Del Pesco has also published a variety of interviews with contemporary social practice artists such as Lee Walton, Jon Rubin, and Amy Balkin. Other writings have been published in TENbyTEN Magazine^[3], Additionally, he started "Shotgun Review" which collects art reviews online and publishes them as a volumed series of books.