Brown Arts

Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD (she/her) is a Filipinx femme curator, writer, and transdisciplinary scholar invested in socially engaged art, site-specific performance, and photographic histories of violence across the Pacific. Her research and writing has been published in venues including American Quarterly, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Hyperallergic, and BOMB Magazine. Dr. Quiray Tagle is the Associate Curator of the Bell Gallery and Brown Arts Institute (BAI) at Brown University; while at Brown, she has organized residencies and solo exhibitions with Autumn Knight + SA Smythe (THEYFXRST), Barbara T. Smith, Jasmine Thomas-Girvan, and Julie Tolentino. As an independent curator, Thea co-curated New York Now: Home (2023), the inaugural contemporary photography triennial at the Museum of the City of New York, and has curated performance and visual art exhibitions for institutions including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Vachon Gallery at Seattle University; and the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries.