Irene Tsatsos is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. She is currently working on the selection of recent digital imagery by Canada-based Conceptualist David Askevold that will be included in his traveling retrospective exhibition being organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. She recently published several essays, including one on the work of artist Carol Cole and another on the work of Joe Sola, whose exhibition “Taking A Bullet” she organized at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. She is one of a team of four curators organizing a discursive project entitled “Civic Matters,” an exchange between artists working in Los Angeles and Scandinavia which will occur in January 2006. Until early 2005, Ms. Tsatsos was the Director / Curator at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), a position she held for almost eight years. Before joining LACE she worked at The Whitney Museum of American Art, where she coordinated the 1997 Biennial Exhibition. Prior to that, she served as the artistic director of the Arts Club of Chicago, where she organized solo exhibitions by James Welling, Marlene Dumas, René Daniëls and a group show with Blinky Palermo, Bruce Nauman and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. At the Arts Club, she also mounted “Fluxus Vivus,” a five-week series of performances by Fluxus artists Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Ben Patterson, Yasuano Tone, and others. Upon graduating from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Ms. Tsatsos was appointed executive director of N.A.M.E. in Chicago. She has earned degrees from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and the Art Institute of Chicago.