Betti-Sue Hertz lives in New York and San Diego and is currently the Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Diego Museum of Art. In 1999 she organized exhibitions as an independent curator for the Sculpture Center, New York, and The Kitchen, New York. She was co-curator of Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s (1999) and curator of Beyond the Borders: Art By Recent Immigrants (1994), both for the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She co-directed 1990s Art from Cuba: A National Residency and Exhibition Program, a cultural-exchange project for five artists in five U.S. cities (1997-1999) and organized the travelling exhibition, Las Casitas; An Urban Cultural Alternative for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1991).

Hertz was executive director of Bronx River Art Center and Gallery (1985-87) and director of the Longwood Arts Project, an exhibition space and artist studio program (1992-1998). She was a member of RepoHistory, an artists' group focusing on absent and neglected histories from 1990 to 1996. Hertz has written and spoken on a variety of subjects including art and urbanism, art from Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and curatorial practice. She holds a M.F.A. from Hunter College, and is a doctoral candidate in Art History at The Graduate School, City University of New York where she is writing a dissertation in the field of art and architecture titled: Social Responses to the Built Environment: Interventions and Interpretations by Contemporary Artists, 1968-98.

She can be reached via email at b-hertz@pacbell.net.

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