High Five Festival Curators
Candace Huey, Head Curator
Candace Huey is an interdisciplinary curator and art historian with years of experience conceptualizing and implementing engaging arts exhibitions and programming for local and international institutions, private entities, and non-profit organizations. She founded re.riddle, an experimental contemporary art gallery that showcases exhibitions and installations worldwide. Candace has worked for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Bonham's auction house, Alameda County Arts Commission, and various art galleries in the Bay Area. Candace holds degrees in Art History from The Courtauld in London and U.C. Berkeley, and has presented her academic research on seventeenth-century Dutch Art in the United States and the Netherlands. Most recently, she was full-time faculty teaching graduate and undergraduate Art History courses at a private university. Candace is co-chair of SECA Council at SFMOMA, on the Northern California Chapter Leadership Committee of ArtTable, Artadia San Francisco Council, Benefit Committee for Headlands Center for the Arts.
Aay Preston-Myint
Aay Preston-Myint (pronounced like the letter "A") is an artist, publisher, curator and educator working in the San Francisco Bay Area, after several years building a career and community in Chicago, Illinois. Their practice employs both visual and collaborative strategies to investigate memory and kinship, often within the specific context of queer community and history. In addition to their studio work, they have founded and led several collective efforts including No Coast, an artist partnership that prints and distributes affordable contemporary artwork; the Chicago Art Book Fair, and Chances Dances, a night life collective that supported and showcased the work of queer and trans artists in Chicago. They are currently the Executive Director of SF Camerawork in San Francisco, California, and support Bay Area artist communities through Real Time and Space's studio and residency program, Southern Exposure's Curatorial Council, and the Board of Directors at Small Press Traffic, a seedbed for poets who push boundaries in the arts.
Colin Choy Kimzey
Colin Choy Kimzey (he/him) is a conceptual artist and researcher working across silkscreen, installation, and curatorial and pedagogical projects. He has a degree in Art Practice from Stanford University. Motivated by his identity as a mixed race Chinese American, he explores Asian American social histories in his hometown, Yelamu (San Francisco), Occupied Ramaytush Ohlone Territory. He is an archivist for the historic activist organization Kearny Street Workshop and has organized two exhibitions based on his research, including Dreaming People's History: The Asian American Radical Imagination (San Francisco Public Library, 2023)
Trisha Lagaso Goldberg
Trisha Lagaso Goldberg is an artist, public art consultant and independent curator. She piloted the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts’ commissioned works branch of its public art program (2006-2018) and served as the founding gallery director of thirtyninehotel in Honolulu (2006-2010), where she commissioned projects by artists such as Carolyn Castaño, Eamon Ore-Giron, and Stephanie Syjuco. Her curatorial projects include Lands End (2021-2022), which featured the work of 27 international artists addressing climate crisis at the historic Cliff House and the 2022 Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision touring retrospective, presented at the Newark Museum of Art, San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Lagaso Goldberg is currently researching and developing an exhibition titled, Remittance, for the Independent Curators International and the Noguchi + Hawai‘i exhibition for the Honolulu Museum of Art. She is a member of the Ninth Planet - a transdisciplinary contemporary art collective organizing the Lagrange Point exhibition for Slash Art in San Francisco. Lagaso Goldberg lives and works in the Bay Area and on the island of O‘ahu.
Candace Huey 許君瑜，首席策展人
許君瑜是一位具備跨學科藝術知識的策展人和藝術歷史學家，擁有多年為本地和國際機構、私人和非牟利組織構思和策劃，引人入勝的藝術展覽和項目的經驗。她創了 辦“re.riddle”，一個實驗性的當代藝術畫廊，在世界各地舉行展覽和展示裝置作品。許君瑜曾在三藩市藝術館、Bonham拍賣行、Alameda縣藝術委員會以及灣區多間美術館工作。她擁有倫敦考陶德學院（Courtauld）藝術歷史學學位。柏克萊加大曾發表了她對十七世紀荷蘭藝術如何影響美國和荷蘭的學術研究。最近，她在一所私立大學擔任全職教師，教授研究生和本科生藝術歷史課程。 許君瑜身兼多項與藝術相關的要職，她是三藩市現代藝術博物館（SFMOMA） SECA 理事會的聯合主席、ArtTable 北加州分會領導委員會、Artadia 三藩市理事會、Headlands 藝術中心福利委員會的成員。
Aay Preston-Myint是一位在三藩市灣區工作的藝術家、出版商、策展人和教育家，之前曾在伊利諾伊州芝加哥打拼事業和協助構建社區。他們透過視覺和互動的手法來研究記憶和親屬關係，通常是以有關性小眾（Queer）社區和歷史作為主題。除了工作室的創作外，他們還創辦並帶領多項集體活動，包括 No Coast，與不同藝術家合作，印刷並發行價格實惠的當代藝術品；芝加哥藝術書展和 Chances Dances - 一個支持並展示芝加哥性小眾（queer）和跨性別藝術家作品的夜生活展覽。他們目前是三藩市SF Camerawork 的行政總監，並利用 Real Time and Space 的工作室和駐場實習計劃、Southern Exposure 的策展委員會來支持灣區的藝術家。他們亦擔任Small Press Traffic的董事局成員，專門培育能突破藝術界限的詩人-。
Colin Choy Kimzey是一位概念藝術家和研究員，從事的工作橫跨網版印刷、設計裝置、策展和教學工作。他畢業於史丹福大學藝術實踐學系。Kimzey是有華裔血統的混血美國人，始於對個人身份的好奇，他在家鄉Yelamu（三藩市）、被佔領的Ramaytush Ohlone領土開始探索亞裔美國人的社會歷史。他是歷史發燒友組織“Kearny街工作坊”的檔案管理員，並基於他的研究組織了兩次展覽，包括《人民夢想的歷史：亞裔美國人前衛的想像力》。（三藩市公共圖書館，2023年）
Trisha Lagaso Goldberg是一位藝術家、公共藝術顧問和獨立策展人。她曾領導夏威夷州文化藝術基金會委託的公共藝術計劃（2006-2018），並擔任檀香山三十九酒店畫廊的創始總監（2006-2010），邀請藝術家，例如是Carolyn Castaño、Eamon Ore-Giron Stephanie Syjuco專門打造新作品。由她策展的項目包括《Lands End》（2021-2022），在歷史悠久的Cliff House展示27 位國際藝術家對氣候變化的解讀，以及“2022 Carlos Villa: 碰撞中的世界“，巡迴回顧展覽，分別在Newark藝術博物館、三藩市藝術委員會主畫廊和三藩市亞洲藝術博物館展出。Lagaso Goldberg目前正在為”國際獨立策展人“策劃名為「匯款」的展覽；同時她亦為檀香山藝術博物館研究並策劃名為「野口+夏威夷」的展覽。她是第九行星的會員。第九行星是一個跨越多個學科的當代藝術團體，曾在三藩市為藝術團體Slash Art組織了拉格朗日點（Lagrange Point）展覽。Lagaso Goldberg在灣區和歐胡島生活和工作。