SAM OZER

Sam Ozer is a curator, producer, and writer. In 2022, she founded TONO, a US non-profit arts organization 501(c)(3) dedicated to exploring and supporting time-based artwork and the subsequent TONO Festival in Mexico.

Before TONO, Ozer held curatorial and programming roles at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and MoMA PS1, New York, where she worked on a series of installations and live performances that brought visual artists and musicians together for new collaborations. She was also the inaugural video curator for Feria Material (2022), the inaugural video curator for Zonamaco (2023) and the inaugural cinema curator for Art Baja California (2023). As an independent curator, Ozer has organized projects at museums and commercial galleries in Athens, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Milan, and New York.

She is regularly invited for talks and has presented her work at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; LOOP, Barcelona; and for the New Centre for Research & Practice at the 59th Venice Biennale. As a writer, she regularly contributes to Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Art21, CFA, Cultured, Cura, Document Journal, Frieze, Interview Magazine, Materia, PIN-UP Magazine, and Purple Magazine, where she was the Managing Editor for Purple 41 and 42 and Editor-at-large for the Mexico City issue.