Allyson Unzicker

Allyson Unzicker is a Ph.D. candidate in Film and Media and is a curator of art and film. Her current research focuses on decolonial aesthetics and the affective structures of fatigue and political depression in film and multimedia installations. She has held various curatorial positions at museums and institutions across the greater Los Angeles area, most recently as the Associate Director and Curator of the University Art Galleries, UC Irvine. Her work as a curatorial and research assistant includes contributions to seven of The Getty Center's Pacific Standard Time exhibitions at UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center and Fowler Museum, The Watts Towers Arts Center, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In addition, she has held positions at the Vincent Price Art Museum and the Frank Lloyd Wright Hollyhock House where she was the project manager and archivist. She has programmed film series for LA Film Forum, BAMPFA and the Peoria Riverfront Museum, and has contributed essays for UC Irvine, The Brooklyn Rail, Perrotin Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.