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.