ADRIEL LUIS

GUEST CURATOR

Adriel Luis was The Nicholson Project’s Guest Curator in the fall of 2021, working with Artist-in-Residence, Hoesy Corona. Adriel is the Curator of Digital and Emerging Media with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.

Adriel is a community organizer, artist, and curator who believes that our collective imagination can make a reality where we all thrive. His life’s work is focused on bridging artistic integrity and social vigilance. As Curator of Digital and Emerging Practice at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, where he advocates for under-served communities to be treated and represented equitably by museums and institutions. He and his team have been curating Culture Labs—an alternative to museum exhibitions, built on community-centered beliefs. He is a part of the iLL-Literacy arts collective, which creates music and media to strengthen Black and Asian American coalitions; is the creative director of Bombshelltoe, which works with artists to highlight marginalized communities affected by nuclear issues; and collaborates with dozens of artists and organizations through his curate and design engine, Phenomenoun.