Dear Fine Arts Community,
I’m pleased to share that Max Fields has been appointed as the new director of the Visual Arts Center, effective April 8. Fields joins the VAC from the FotoFest, where he served as curator and director of programs since 2019. As the director of an experiential, public-facing curatorial laboratory at UT Austin, Fields will provide vision and programmatic leadership in his new role at the Visual Arts Center. With his deep curatorial experiences at renowned institutions in Texas and beyond, Max is the perfect candidate to build upon the successes of the center and continue to elevate its profile.
Fields has curated, co-curated and organized more than 30 exhibitions of contemporary art, including the 2022 FotoFest Biennial If I Had a Hammer with Steven Evans and Amy Sadao, the 2021 Texas Biennial exhibition In Place of an Index with Ryan Dennis and Evan Garza, and Gareth Long: Kidnappers Foil at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston. Fields has held curatorial and administrative positions at FotoFest, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Suplex Projects.
Fields’s exhibitions and projects have received attention and reviews from publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, Mousse Magazine, The Guardian, Aperture and Texas Monthly. His writing on art and photography has appeared in numerous exhibition catalogs, magazines and journals. Fields received his M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and a B.S. in Photography from Texas A&M-Commerce.
Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Max Fields as he steps into this role.
