Our Team — Curatorial

Meet the Curatorial Team

As a curator, art historian, author, and photographer, Graham created Curatorial (then Curatorial Assistance) in 1988. With over three decades of experience in curating, producing and managing exhibition projects, he has organized and overseen the creation and circulation of more than 400 exhibitions to venues worldwide. Before founding Curatorial, Graham was a visiting curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1984-85), he served as curator of the Graham Nash Collection (1976-88), prior to which he was the founding Director of the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney (1973-75). In 1972, he was Exhibitions Manager at the Photographers' Gallery, London, (1972-73) and Research Assistant at the Royal Photographic Society, 1973. Graham has authored over 20 books on photography and art history and holds an MFA in Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Art, from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in Photography and Film from Prahran College, Melbourne.

Phillip is an award-winning curator, art historian, and writer, formerly Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The winner of the Mellon Rome Fellowship in 2016 and a graduate of the Oxford Cultural Leaders Programme, he has held appointments at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, Yale and MIT. His books have made numerous ‘best of’ lists and have twice been named among New York Times best art and architecture books of the year. His recent exhibition Martin Parr: Only Human was shortlisted for the Sky / Southbank Prize, and William Eggleston: Portraits was a finalist for the Global Fine Arts Award. Other notable exhibitions include: Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism, Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement, and in association with HRH Kate Middleton, Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography and Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait. Phillip holds a PhD in history of art from Cambridge University, an MLA from Stanford, and a BA from Williams College. His new book, An Alternative History of Photography will be published by Prestel this fall.

phillip@curatorial.org | +1 626-577-0044

Marika combines her writing, research and journalism skills with art to manage the development, marketing and coordination of the firm’s touring exhibitions. She also coordinates communications with the firm's upper executive. Marika was a translator and historian with Grønn Ungdom in Oslo, Norway, and has conducted and published research with the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Her most recent book, co-authored with Michelle Dragoo, Adrian Silvan Ionescu and Graham Howe, Hoppé’s Portrait of a Country: Photographs of Greater Romania, 1923 was published in 2019 in association with the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection. Marika holds a BA in English Literature and Norwegian Language, from St. Olaf College, Minnesota.

marika@curatorial.org | +1 626-577-0044

Maxfield manages Curatorial’s art museum, gallery, collector, artist and corporate accounts and coordinates production for Curatorial’s comprehensive art products and services. With over a decade of fine art registration, fabrication, and shipping experience from working in galleries located in Honolulu and Los Angeles, Maxfield specializes in managing creative projects of varying levels of complexity with signature resourcefulness.

Jacob coordinates the transportation and installation logistics of the Curatorial art services department and facilitates daily operations for the art preparator team. He also oversees the registration and organization of art assets and has participated in the inventorying of several large art collections, including those related to ArtCenter College of Design, Allied Property and The Langham Huntington, Pasadena. Jacob holds a BA in History from California State University, Los Angeles.

Natalia manages the art collections at Curatorial Advisory with a focus on Latin American archives. She manages collection registration, photo conservation, including the documentation and archival storage of physical collections. She serves as a consultant for clients, providing plans for the digitization of their collection and maintaining their online inventory. As a photographer, Natalia has participated in different group exhibitions in Boston, New York And Virginia. She holds a Design Communication Arts Certificate from UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, and a BA, from the New England School of Photography, Boston, and Comunicación Social degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Liza Faktor is a curator, arts producer and creative strategist working on the intersection of photography, moving image and emerging media. In her capacity as a Programming and Development Lead she is utilizing her extensive experience in visual arts and innovative storytelling, project development and fundraising.
She curated over twenty exhibitions, festival programs, lectured and taught workshops in the US, Latin America, Europe and Australia. Her work was featured at the Dutch Resistance Museum, Musée du quai Branly, Detroit Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Tribeca, IDFA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Visions du Réel film festivals, among other venues. As a creative producer Liza has worked on award-winning installations, art films and community engagement projects. She was a founding member of the international art+film production collective Vessel and co-founder of cross platform production Screen in New York.

liza@curatorial.org | +1 626-577-0044

After working over 15 years in the digital advertising world, creating, analyzing and strategizing campaigns for major corporate brands, Mark has leveraged that tech experience to his real passion, art and cultural heritage. At Curatorial Advisory, he manages the vast digital and physical archive of the various art collections including the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection, comprising tens of thousands of images, vintage negatives, documents and manuscripts. He has recently curated his first major exhibition, “Unspeakably Queer,” which showcases portraits and life stories of early-twentieth century LGBTQ+ personalities. Mark holds a BA, English from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and Archives and Digital Collections Certification from Pasadena City College, Pasadena.