B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, 1993
Adrienne Drake is a curator and art historian who has been teaching at JCU since 2022. She is the founding Director and Curator of Fondazione Giuliani, a non-profit contemporary art space that emphasizes new artistic production and the exploration of multiple or tangential aspects of an artist’s practice. Since the Foundation’s inception in 2010, she has curated an international roster of solo presentations and group exhibitions, as well as developed a program of guest curators, performances, events, and off-site projects. She also curates independently a selection of exhibitions, including at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome; CNEAI Centre national édition art image, Chatou, France; Festival Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro; Fondation Hippocrène, Paris; MACRO, Rome; Mattatoio, Rome; Press to Exit, Skopje. She is co-founder of l'Atalante, a cultural association dedicated to an interdisciplinary exploration of the Lazio region, and Magic Lantern Film Festival, a semi-annual thematic investigation of the interstice between visual art and cinema.
