Mentor

Carina Evangelista

(she/her)

​​Carina Evangelista is a curator and an artist. Currently an independent curator, her past credentials include having worked in curatorial or editorial capacity at institutions both in the U.S. and the Philippines. She has served as Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs at Oklahoma Contemporary; as Deputy Director and subsequently Interim Director at Asia Society Museum and its Global Artistic Programs; as Editor at Artifex Press (now Cahiers d’Art Institute); as Curator at Delaware Contemporary; as Guest Curator and Guest Lecturer at Art Fair Philippines and universities in different cities in the Philippines. 

She was a cohort member of the 2024 Creative Leaders Guild Institute. She served as mentor to Hamiltonian Artists fellows Misha Ilyin and Kat Thompson. Projects she has worked on have featured artists such as Poklong Anading, Constancio Bernardo, Chakaia Booker, Crystal Z Campbell, Roberto Chabet, Chuck Close, Maren Hassinger, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Akira Kurosawa, Sol LeWitt, Robert Montgomery, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Jet Pascua, Howardena Pindell, Ed Ruscha, Eva Schlegel, Yasmin Sison, Tony Smith, Robert Storr, and Weegee.