Anton Stuebner

class of 2014

about

Anton Stuebner is Director at Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. As a freelance writer and curator, his areas of focus include queer representation, critical race, and visual cultures around bodies. His graduate research explored the intersection of bodily imaginaries and emergent video/imaging technologies during the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis. More recent project examine the aesthetics of haunting and the relationship between absence and vulnerable populations. In Summer 2019, Stuebner's essay "You are not alone" was commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission and 2nd floor projects for the exhibition "With(out) With(in) the very moment: Eight Artists Reflect on Living during the Gay Liberation Movement through HIV/AIDS Activism," curated by Margaret Tedesco. In 2022, Pilot Press will re-publish this essay as part of an anthology responding to Derek Jarman's iconic AIDS-era film "Blue" (1993). In Spring 2020, he curated "No More I Love Yous," a group exhibition at Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland that explored the intersections of intimacy, desire, and disability. In Summer 2018, Anton curated "We Tell Ourselves Stories...In Order To Live," a group exhibition with attendant programming at Catharine Clark Gallery that featured work by Sophie Calle, Leonora Carrington, Lenka Clayton, Edgar Martins, Patrick Staff, Stephanie Syjuco and Katherine Vetne. In 2016, he also organized "Queer Babes," a solo exhibition of photographs by Jordan Reznick, as part of his Curator-in-Residence Fellowship at Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco. From 2018 - 2020, Stuebner served as Reviews and Contributing Editor for Art Practical, an online periodical based in San Francisco and published by California College of the Arts that covered emerging and established arts practices on the West Coast. Stuebner holds a Master of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He has received multiple awards and fellowships, including a 2016 Curator-in-Residence Fellowship at Romer Young Gallery and a 2015-2016 Project Index Fellow at the Kadist Art Foundation, among others. Stuebner currently serves on the Board of Directors of Headlands Center for the Arts. He previously served on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsEd), a non-profit that brings teaching artists into elementary and middle schools within SFUSD.