Daniela Lieja Quintanar is an independent curator and researcher. Her collaborative curatorial practice takes inspiration from everyday life, spaces of political struggle, and communal forms of knowledge production. From 2022 to 2026, she was Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT). From 2016 to 2022 Lieja Quintanar served as Chief Curator and Director of Programming at LACE. For the 2024 PST Art Getty Initiative, she curated “All Watched Over by Machine of Loving Grace” at REDCAT and Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). For REDCAT, she organized “The Feminist Art Program (1970–75): Cycles of Collectivity” and commissioned several solo shows and performances, including those by Lisa Alvarado, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Hande Sever, Abigail Collins and Guadalupe Maravilla. She was awarded the Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship in 2018. Since 2015, she has collaborated with Los Angeles Tenants Union, East Side Local/Union de Vecinos.
