Yashi Davalos
Independent Curator, Administrator, Artist, and Art Writer
Atlanta Native, b. 1995, KCMO Based
Professional Experience / Fellowships
2024-2025 Interim Grants & Programs Manager, Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO
2024 Mid America Art Alliance Artist Leadership Fellowship, KCMO
2023-2025 Charlotte Street Foundation Curatorial Fellowship, KCMO
2023 -2025 Regional Programming Liaison / Organizing Partner, MDW Midwestern Art Coalition
2022 - 2025 The Front Gallery New Orleans Collective:
Exchanges Committee, Fundraising Committee, New Member Committee, Exhibition Documentation
2020 Photography Internship, Axiom Fine Art Gallery, NOLA
Selected Curatorial Work
2025 Curator, Third South Vernacular & Oyster Knives, BircCar x Tube Factory Art Space | INDY, IN (forthcoming)
2025 Curator, Soma, Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles (forthcoming)
2025 Curator, Geometrica: Pop y Rucas , The Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO (forthcoming)
2024 Curator, Allegories of Inertia, The Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO
2024 Curator, Miss / They Camaraderie 2024, The Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO
2023 Co-Curator Kimi Kitada, KC Flatfile & Digital File Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, KCMO
2023 Co-Curator w/ John Alleyne, Echolocation Series: Industrialized Persona Group Exhibition, The Front Gallery, NOLA
2022 Curator, Past, Present, & Afro-Futurism Group Exhibition, The Front Gallery, NOLA
Curatorial Administrative Lead
2023 Gallery Curator, Solo Exhibition, Monolingual, Samantha Haan, The Front Gallery, NOLA
2023 Gallery Curator, Solo Exhibition, Invitation into the Abyss: The Origins of Black, Tony Luella Chalmers, The Front Gallery, NOLA
2022 Gallery Curator, Group Exhibition, donde se despierta mi risa, The Front Gallery, NOLA
Grant + Award Management
2024-Present Administrative Lead, Visual and Performing Arts Awards, The Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO
2024-Present Administrative Lead, The Charlotte Street Foundation x Art Omi International Residency Slot
2024-Present Administrative Lead, The Charlotte Street Foundation, Byron C. Cohen Art Fair Sponsorship Award
2024 -Present Administrative Lead, Crossroads Art Boards, The Charlotte Street Foundation
Programming
2025 Administrative Lead, {B/qKC} building the archive workshop series , The Charlotte Street Foundation (forthcoming)
2025 Co-Administrative Lead w/ Kimi Kitada, Guest Critic Series, The Charlotte Street Foundation (forthcoming)
2025 Curator, Aesthetic Cartographies performances in collaboration the Sight x Sounds series, UMKC Music Conservatory & CSF (forthcoming)
2024-2025 Facilitator/Administrative Lead, MAAA Artist Inc Live @ The Charlotte Street Foundation
2024 Program Coordinator, Horizontal Floor Exercise the Eleven Twenty Choir, Exhibition Activation, Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO
2024 Program Coordinator, Entos by Alexis Borth, Exhibition Activation Dance Performance, Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO
2024 Panel Moderator, Queer Histories: Curating from the Archives ft. Sarah Zapata Installation, Kemper Museum, KCMO
2024 Administrative Lead, Timbre Arts Writing Incubator, Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO
2024 Program Coordinator, Miss/They Camaraderie Pageant Performance, Charlotte Street Foundation, KCMO
2023 Program Coordinator, Everyday Matters PhotoJournalist Talk with Rita Harper, The Front NOLA
2022 Program Coordinator, Afro-Futurist Artist Talk Panel, Virgin Hotels, NOLA
Recent Writings
The Radical Memory Work of {B/qKC} Interview With Nasir Anthony Montalvo, Sixty Inches From Center, 2024
MDW Atlas, Third South Vernacular and Oyster Knives, Essay/Curatorial Monologue, 2024
Caribe Contemporáneo: In conversation with the Muted Human, Burnaway Caribbean, 2024
Salvador Jimenez and Rasquache Futurism, Intervenxions at The Latinx Project, 2024
Marie Bannerot McInerney: Trace Me Back at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Burnaway, 2024
Fossilized Ecologies: A review of Yoonmi Nam’s Generally Meant to be Discarded, Sixty Inches From Center, 2024
Charlotte Street Foundation, Miss/They Camaraderie 2024, Curatorial Manifesto
Publications
2023 -2025 Editor in Chief, Timbre KC Arts Reader, CSF Fellowship Publication
2023 -2024 Regional Editor & Contributing Writer, MDW Atlas Missouri, Multimedia and Print Arts Publication
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Group Exhibition Eyes on Atlanta: Contemporary Latinx Photography, Atlanta Photography Group
2024 Group Exhibition Asemblea Naccional, MECA Art Fair, Booth MC08, Dominican Republic
2023 Solo Exhibition Echolocation Series: Project Baby Zone 2 Girl Dubois, Nikki Gallery, Arabi, LA
2023 Group Exhibition Front and Center, Plug Gallery, KCMO
2022 Solo Exhibition Venus As A Boy, Aquarium Gallery, NOLA
2022 Group Exhibition Nuestra Creación Exhibition, Mint Gallery, ATL
2022 Group Exhibition Atlanta Art Week : Elevate ATL's Juried Exhibition, Cat-Eye Gallery, ATL
2022 Group Exhibition Summer Reading, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, NOLA
Residencies / Grants / Awards
2024 Burnaway : Process Is Critical Art Writing Incubator
2024 Muña x Sixty Inches from Center Art Writing Residency
2022 - 2025 The Front Gallery New Orleans Collective Juried Membership
2022 Antenna’s Creative Response Collaborative Fund Recipient, NOLA
2021 Aquarium Gallery Artist Residency, NOLA
Lectures/ Panels/ Public Presentations
2024 Guest Speaker, Navigating Independent Practice Lecture, University of Missouri Kansas City
2024 Juror, One Percent for Art Kansas City, Public Sculpture / City Hall Permanent Installation Call
2024 Judge, The League for Innovation Student Art Competition, Johnson County Community College
2022 - 2023 Judge, Tulane University’s Center for Youth Equity Y.A.E. Exhibition
2022 Mentor, Prospect New Orleans Young Artist's Exchange, Contemporary Arts Center, NOLA