Renny Pritikin

Renny Pritikin was the director of New Langton Arts and the chief curator of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He is now director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at UC Davis. He has curated and written catalog essays for dozens of exhibitions, regionally and internationally.

In the past decade, he has lectured widely in Japanese museums as a guest of the USIA; toured Israel as a Koret Israel Prize Fellow; was the curator chosen to represent the United States at the Cuenca (Ecuador) Bienal; and lectured in three cities in New Zealand as a Fulbright Fellow.

In addition to teaching at CCA, he has taught art administration and artist professional skills training at California State University and Golden Gate University.

Renny has a recent book of poetry, How We Talk, (POD Press, 2007). He was guest curator of the exhibition, Neither Here Nor There, at Johansson Projects in Oakland in 2008. His exhibition, You See: The History of the Studio Art Department at UC Davis, which opened in 2007, will continue touring until late 2009.