Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

Lindsey White left academia in 2023 to rethink her engagement with higher education. White was the 2025 Arthur & Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator and Artist in Residence at the Hunter College Art Galleries in New York City. She has exhibited at venues such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen; Bolinas Museum, California; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; ACME., Los Angeles; White Columns, New York; The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Oregon; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; Locust Projects, Miami; San Francisco International Airport Museum; and Museum Bärengasse, Zurich. White was awarded SFMOMA’s 2017 SECA Award. White was an Associate Professor and Photography Department Chair at the San Francisco Art Institute before it closed in 2022, and Director of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. Her book, “What? Is? Art?” is available through Colpa Press.

While At Headlands

This summer, I’m co-facilitating with artist Jon Rubin a free eight-week experimental summer program, Present Company, at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Present Company centers how knowledge can be organically fostered by bringing a diverse group of artists together in both structured and unstructured ways. Present Company always meets in-person—both at Headlands Center for the Arts and in the greater Bay Area, where the collective group of participating artists reside. The cohort includes: Rania Ho, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Brendan Getz, DJ Meisner, evan pettiglio, Helia Pouyanfar, Jose Figueroa, Katie Dorame, Joshua Moreno, Bahaar Tadjbakhsh, Paola de la Calle, and Dana Davenport