b. 1986, lives and works in San Diego, CA

M.A. in Art History, Williams College, 2013

B.A. in Art History, St. Olaf College, 2009

Lecturer in Art History, 2022-Present

•”Disability in Art and Visual Culture,” University of San Diego (Fall 2024)

•“Created in California: An Art History of the Golden State,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California San Diego (Fall 2024)

•”History and Theory of Photography,” University of San Diego

•”Exhibition Design,” University of San Diego

•”Museums: History and Contemporary Issues,” University of San Diego

•”Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries in Europe and the Americas,” University of San Diego

•“American Art 1900-1950,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California San Diego

Founder and Editor, HereIn Journal, March 2020—Present

•Essays: Elizabeth Rooklidge on Maria Mathioudakis, Elizabeth Rooklidge on Maya Gurantz, Elizabeth Rooklidge on Victoria Fu and Matt Rich, Elizabeth Rooklidge on Yasmine Kasem, Elizabeth Rooklidge on Flavia D’Urso

•Features: Portfolio: Andrew Alcasid, One Work: Janelle Igelsias, Portfolio: Amel Jane, One Work: Joshua Moreno, One Work: Manny Farber, One Work: Tessie Salcido Whitmore, One Work: Shirin Towfiq, Portfolio: Bhavna Mehta

•Interviews: Kanthy Peng, Wren Gardiner, Cat Gunn, Sabrina Piersol, Matthew Bacher, Kirstyn Hom, Amir Saadiq, Aaron Glasson, Omar Pimienta, Nassem Navab, Sofia Gonzalez, Allison Wiese, Melissa Walter, Bryan Ali Sanchez, Danielle Dean, Andrea Chung, Sister Chapman, Carlos Castro Arias, Lael Corbin

Independent Curator, 2017-Present

•Picturing Health, Best Practice Gallery, San Diego, CA, Fall 2024

•Shirin Towfiq: Looking For a Sign, City Gallery, San Diego City College, 2022

•Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive, La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla, CA, 2022

•The Nightstand Collective, installation in collaboration with artist Emma Jones and Able Zine, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, Nov. 26, 2021

•Selection panelist, Park Social, City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, 2020

•29th Annual Juried Exhibition, co-juried with Joe Yorty, La Jolla Atheneum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA, 2020

•Flavia D’Urso: Slippage of a Strand, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA, 2020

•Tessie Salcido Whitmore: I Rang a Silent Bell, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA, 2019

•A Show About Touching, Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA, 2019

•Interchange, public site-specific installations by six artists throughout San Diego’s North Park neighborhood, commissioned by the North Park Property and Business Improvement District, 2019

•I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art: Prints by John Baldessari, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, 2019

•High Key: Color in Southern California, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA, 2018

•Yasmine Kasem: Mwasah, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA, 2018

Associate Curator, Katonah Museum of Art, 2015-2017

•Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, 2018

•Creighton Michael: On Drawing, in process, 2017 

•Spot Gallery: Shlomo Cassos, 2017

•Spot Gallery: Roxanne Savage, 2016

•OnSite Katonah, site-specific installations by eight contemporary artists, 2016

•Keiran Brennan Hinton: Chappaqua Mural, public installation in Chappaqua, NY, 2016

•Victoria Fu: Egg, site-specific public installation, 2016

•The Nest: an exhibition of art and nature, 2016

•Aaron Curry: UGLY MESS, outdoor sculpture installation, 2015-2016

Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2013-2015

•Sarah Cain: blue in your body, red when it hits the air, 2015

•The Visual Elastic: Cartoon Aesthetics from the Collection, 2015

•A Legacy of Art Loved: Gifts from Robert and Dorothy Shapiro, co-curated with MCASD Director Hugh Davies, 2015

•Fabrications: Landscape Photography from the Collection, 2015

•Line Involvements: Selected Prints from the Collection, 2014

•Treasures of the Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, co-curated with Hugh Davies, 2014

•Eva Struble: Produce , 2014

Graduate Curatorial Intern, Williams College Museum of Art, 2011-2013

•Selection from the art and literary journal Semina for inclusion in the exhibition Picture: Literature, 2013

•Cosmologies, 2012

Visiting Critic and Lecturer

•University of California San Diego, University of San Diego, San Diego State University, Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, Parsons School of Design, Residency Unlimited, Medium Photography Festival