Leigh Markopoulos is the chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice located on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts.

Formerly the director of Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, Markopoulos came to San Francisco to take up the position of deputy director of the CCA Wattis Institute. Prior to that she was exhibition organizer at the Serpentine Gallery in London. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including most recently Complicity: Contemporary Photography and the Matter of Sculpture at Rena Bransten Gallery, and has organized over 50 exhibitions ranging from solo shows of Richard Artschwager, Dan Flavin, and Brice Marden to major group exhibitions such as Monuments for the USA and IRREDUCIBLE: Contemporary Short Form Video.

Markopoulos has also worked on many freelance writing/editorial projects, including most recently writing the catalogue essay for a solo show by Igor Eskinja. She currently is working on the forthcoming catalog raisonné of the artist Bridget Riley. Since 2003 she has been an adjunct professor in CCA’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice.

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Chair, Curatorial Practice
Associate Professor, Curatorial Practice
Associate Professor, Fine Arts

BA, University of Southampton

Contact: lmarkopoulos@cca.edu