Lia Gangitano is director of PARTICIPANT INC, NY, a not-for-profit art space she founded in 2001. She has served as curator of Thread Waxing Space, NY, associate curator, The ICA, Boston, and curatorial advisor, MoMA PS1. She is a recipient of Skowhegan Governors’ Award for Outstanding Service to Artists (2015), the inaugural White Columns/Shoot the Lobster Award (2016), and the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence (2018). She teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.