Katya Min

Katya Min is an independent curator based in the Bay Area and currently is the co-director of SEE(d) Artists Series. Katya was the curator for the Room For Big Ideas, a project gallery space at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts(YBCA), San Francisco and YBCA's Visual Arts and Community Engagement Public Programs from 2011 to 2018. At YBCA, Katya led a range of programs, including the monthly Converge/Live Practice series, a monthly artist-centered transdisciplinary conceptual activation series, as well as YBCA Arts & Ideas Festivals.

She was previously the director and curator of IcTus Projects, a contemporary art space in the Mission district of San Francisco where she exhibited thematically based exhibitions including “Ancient Future Super Natural” with international artists Choi Jeong Hwa and Alice Könitz, and “Assembly Line” with Li Xiaofei as well as Bay Area artists Zeina Barakeh, Mary Fernando Conrad, Rodney Ewing, Michal Gavish, Greg Ito, Cassie Thorton, C Ree, and Jenifer Wofford. Her independent curatorial projects include working with artists Young Joon Kwak at Cloaca Projects and Sofía Córdova at McLoughlin 49 Geary Gallery. She currently serves on the curatorial committee for the Cycladic Arts Residency based in Paros, Greece.

Katya Min studied Interdisciplinary Fine Arts and Art History at California College of the Arts (CCA), and Integral Psychology and Philosophy at CIIS. Katya also has a background in geopolitics work as well as cultural social work. She also served as a lecturer for the course Arts in Context: Process of Cultural Production at Stanford University.