Renny Pritikin

Biography: Renny Pritikin is a San Francisco Bay Area based curator, art writer and poet. He’s been chief curator at New Langton Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. He’s the author of five books of poetry and a memoir. Pritikin lives in Oakland with his wife, Judy Moran. Renny Pritikin, born in Brooklyn, New York, received a BA from New School College, NYC, and an MA from San Francisco State in Interdisciplinary Arts. Career highlights include a lecture series in Japanese museums as a guest of the State Department and as a Koret Israel Prize winner toured extensively in Israel. He was the curator for the United States exhibition at the Cuenca, Ecuador Biennal, presenting the work of Don Ed Hardy, and was a Fulbright Scholar lecturing in museums throughout New Zealand. Pritikin was a senior adjunct professor in the curatorial practice graduate program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco fror twelve years.. The author of five published books of poetry, he was poet-in-residence at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco. He is the United States correspondent for the Portuguese art magazine, Umbigo, and a regular contributor to the art review site, squarecylinder.com.