Jan Van Woensel

Jan Van Woensel is an independent curator, art critic, lecturer, and musician based in New York City and Los Angeles.

In 2007 he was nominated for the Curatorial Fellowship at Art in General and Bloomberg LP in New York. He teaches in CCA's Curatorial Practice Program in San Francisco, Otis College in Los Angeles, and NYU's department of Art and Art Professions.

Jan curates exhibitions for Shanghai MOMA, China; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (MuHKA); ISCP, Brooklyn; Orensanz Foundation—Center for the Arts and Envoy Gallery, New York; HVCC, Troy, NY; the American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; and Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.

Jan Van Woensel is cofounder of con man magazine, a collaborative email magazine. He also is the curatorial advisor of Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer.

He's currently working on the traveling group shows Bad Moon Rising and Last Day of Magic.