Tessa Bachi Haas is a curator and art historian. Her academic research and curatorial work focus on screen-based media, net art, and digital identity, particularly through material culture methodologies. She is based in Boston and can be reached at tessabachihaas@gmail.com. Full CV available upon request.
- Curatorial Assistant, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2023-current
- Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, expected 2026
- Publication Coordinator and Curatorial Assistant, Firelei Báez, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Mar-Sept 2024 (traveling)
- Co-Curator (with Ruth Erickson), Wu Tsang: Of Whales, Feb-Aug 2024
- Professional Alliance for Curators of Color, Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC), 2023-2024
- External Juror, Open Call, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 2023-2024
- Gallery Talk, "Tessa Haas on Simone Leigh", Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, May 2023
- Curatorial Fellow, Simone Leigh, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, April-Sept 2023 (traveling through 2024)
- Guest Critic, RISD Fine Arts Portfolio Review, April 2023
- "Digital Bodies, Digital Objects: Sondra Perry's IT'S IN THE GAME '17", Conference Talk, Seventeenth Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, University of Delaware, April 2023
- Curatorial Fellow, Sung Tieu: Civic Floor, MIT List Visual Arts Center, April-July 2023
- Curatorial Fellow, Lex Brown: Carnelian, MIT List Visual Arts Center, April-July 2023
- Curatorial Fellow, List Projects 26: Alison Nguyen, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Feb-June 2023
- Graduate Lecturer, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2022
- "How Andy Li is Threading Together Love and Awareness" (cover article), Boston Art Review, Issue 9, 2022
- Curatorial Fellow, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2022-2023
- Editor, "Archive-as-Practice: 124 Years of Fleisher Art Memorial", Zine, 2022
- Recipient, Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award, New Media Caucus, College Art Association, 2022
- Editor, "Hard, Medium, Software", Exhibition Catalog, 2022
- Curator, Hard Medium Software, AUTOMAT, May 2022
- Archivist, Fleisher Art Memorial, 2021-2022
- Curatorial Assistant, Ruth Fine, Independent Curator, formerly National Gallery of Art, 2018-2022
- Graduate Mentor, Hanna Holborn Gray Fellowship Program, Bryn Mawr College, 2022
- Curatorial Research and Production Assistant, Jayson Musson: His History of Art, Fabric Workshop and Museum, July-Nov 2022
- Rising Wing Member, Philadelphia Contemporary, 2022-2023
- Moderator, "Art Video Panel", Steady/Retcon: Syracuse University MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 2022
- Member, New Media Caucus, 2022-current
- McPherson Curatorial Fellow, Polly Apfelbaum: For the Love of Una Hale, Arcadia Exhibitions, Feb-April 2022
- Program Assistant, Museum Studies, Bryn Mawr College, 2020-current
- Panelist, "Queer as Folk: Exploring LGBTQ+ Identity", Arcadia Exhibitions, March 2022
- "Queer As Folk: The Many Faces of David Ellinger", Catalog Essay, forthcoming Polly Apfelbaum catalog produced by Arcadia Exhibitions, estimated 2022
- Curatorial Assistant, Body Language: The Art of Larry Day, Woodmere Art Museum, Arcadia Exhibitions, and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts, Sept 2021-Jan 2022
- Interview, Ask An Archivist Day, Fleisher Art Memorial, October 2021
- Organizer, LKTV, AUTOMAT with Lino Kino, Jan-Feb 2021
- Moderator, "On Race, Racism, Museums, and Cultural Institutions", Bryn Mawr College, March 2021
- Member, American Alliance of Museums, 2020-current
- Curator, Knew Normal, AUTOMAT, Oct-Nov 2020
- Curator, Camp Philly, AUTOMAT, Jan-Feb 2020
- Research Assistant, Abbey Ryan Studio, 2019-20
- Curatorial Intern, Ancient History of the Distant Future, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and KADIST, Sept 2019-Feb 2020
- “Cowrie-as-Craft: Material Biographies in the Work of Rina Banerjee", Symposium Talk, All-Over Influence: Global Exchanges, Bryn Mawr College, Feb 2020
- Curator, AUTOMAT Cooperative Gallery, 2019-2023
- Masters of Arts, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, 2019
- "Currency, Ritual, Craft: Cowrie Shells in the Work of Rina Banerjee", Masters of Arts thesis advised by Dr. Sylvia Houghteling, Bryn Mawr College, 2019
- Co-Curator (with Kate Testa), Additional Assembly Required, AUTOMAT, July-Aug 2019
- Co-Curator (with Anya Prussin, Talia Shiroma, and Maeve White), Temperamental! Prints in the Collection of Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, March-June 2019
- Curatorial Assistant, Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart's Life in Jazz, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, Harvard University, Sept-Dec 2019
- Installation Assistant and Curatorial Intern, Rina Banerjee: Make Me A Summary of the World, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Oct 2018-March 2019
- “Rina Banerjee: Make Me A Summary of the World”, Traveling lecture series given on behalf of the PAFA Education Department, including Abington Free Library (PA), Moorestown Library (NJ), Salem County Community College (NJ), and more, Jan-May 2019
- Curatorial Intern, Bill Viola: Ocean Without A Shore, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, June 2019-Dec 2022
- “Currency, Ritual, Craft: Cowrie Shells in the Work of Rina Banerjee”, Symposium Talk, Temperamental!, Bryn Mawr College, March 2019
- Member, College Art Association, 2018-current
- Bachelor of Arts, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
- Co-Curator (with Liam Bailey and Abi Lua), Altering American Art: Selections from PAFA's Collection of Work by Women, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Oct-Dec 2018
- Curatorial Intern, SWARM., the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, June-Sept 2018
- Curatorial Intern, Infinite Spaces: Rediscovering PAFA’s Permanent Collection, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, June-Sept 2018
- Curator, PLEASE TOUCH THE ART, Haverford College, May 2018
- Co-Curator, We’re In It: Remaking the World, Center for Creative Works, May-June 2018
- Curatorial Assistant, Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sept 2017-March 2018
- Curatorial Intern, In Franklin's Footsteps: 275 Years at the American Philosophical Society, The American Philosophical Society, April-Nov 2018
- “Unbelievable? Colonial Systems of Power from Cabinets of Curiosity to Damien Hirst”, Symposium Talk, Nature so-called, Bryn Mawr College, April 2018
- Student Board Member, The Barnes Foundation, 2017-18
- Curatorial Intern, National Sporting Library and Museum, 2016
- Summer Research Intern, Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, 2015
- Visual Studies, Eugene Lang College, The New School