Staci Bu Shea

Staci Bu Shea is a curator, writer, and lecturer. With a focus on how we relate with one another, Bu Shea is concerned with practices and representations of social life across art, institutions, activism, and the everyday. Bu Shea has been curator at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht, since 2017. There, together with Rizvana Bradley, Bu Shea developed Poetics of Living, a long-term “study line” on non-normative ways of living together in consideration of rapidly changing discourses around sexuality, health, communal living, and death. Elsewhere, Bu Shea has curated Heroic in its ordinariness, Crisp Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, 2019; co-curated Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art, New York, 2017; and curated Emphasis Repeats*, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, 2016. Bu Shea lives and works in Utrecht.