Portfolio in Practice

A4 invites AAPI visual artists for the special opportunity to register for 1:1 consultations and portfolio reviews with prominent NYC-based curators.

Portfolio in Practice invites AAPI visual artists to receive valuable feedback on their portfolios from leading contemporary curators. The event consists of a brief introduction of the curators and one-on-one sessions made by appointment through online registration, with curators providing close consultation on artist projects. Artists can register for up to three 20-minute sessions with curators. This initiative is intended to promote increased engagement among the Asian American visual arts community, providing critical feedback, and creating opportunities for artists.

This year’s curators include:

• Sarah Burney, independent curator and writer
• Kathy Huang, managing director, Art Advisory and Special Projects at Jeffrey Deitch
• Sohrab Mohebbi, director of SculptureCenter
• Sadaf Padder, independent curator and art advisor
• Prerana Reddy, associate director of Artist Programs, Recess

Registration: All artists must register in advance. Early registration is recommended as slots fill up quickly. Participants can reserve spots with curator on a first come, first serve basis. Each artist is allowed to register for a maximum of three sessions and may only register for one session per curator (i.e. multiple tickets may not be purchased for the same curator). The cost per session is $25.00. If financial difficulties make this cost a barrier, or if you require further accommodation, please contact Danie Wu at dwu@aaartsalliance.org.

All purchases are final, and refunds will not be issued.

Accessibility: A4 is located on the 9th floor with elevators that are wheelchair accessible. Restrooms are for all genders and also wheelchair accessible. If you require any accommodations including ASL interpretation, language translation, or large print, please email programs@aaartsalliance.org at least one week before the event. We will do our best to accommodate.

Panelist bios:

Sarah Burney
Sarah Burney is an independent curator and writer based in New York. Raised in Kuwait and Pakistan, she specializes in contemporary printmaking and contemporary art from South Asia. Her work is driven by an interest in artists’ materials and processes, as well as in expanding and diversifying discourse around contemporary art. Her recent curatorial projects include Krishna Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower (Print Center New York, 2025) and Zarina: Directions to My House (forthcoming, STPI Singapore, 2026). Her writing has been published by Ishara Art Foundation, Art Asia Pacific, Sotheby’s, KajalMag.com, Tribe Photo Magazine, and Alexis Bittar’s journal, among others. In 2018, Burney partnered with Zarina to co-author one of the artist’s last major publications, Directions to My House, published by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. Burney’s writing and curatorial work are informed by the range of perspectives she has gained through her experience with Zarina’s studio, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, and the Guerrilla Girls. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Print Center New York.

Kathy Huang
Kathy Huang is an independent curator and managing director, Art Advisory and Special Projects at Jeffrey Deitch, where she curated Wonder Women, an exhibition featuring forty Asian diasporic women and non-binary artists working in figuration. The book for Wonder Women was published by Rizzoli in May 2025. At Deitch, she has also organized exhibitions such as Dominique Fung: It’s Not Polite to Stare (2021), Sasha Gordon: Hands Of Others (2022), and Amanda Ba: Developing Desire (2024). Most recently, Huang curated Art (By) Dealers at Long Story Short, New York (2023); Wild: Women Abstractionists on Nature (2024) at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila; Studiolo: A Cabinet Painting Exhibition at Adler Beatty, New York (2024); Under The Talking Tree at Kunsthal n, Copenhagen (2025); and Art (By) Dealers at White Columns, New York (2026). In December 2024, Huang served as the Guest Curator for UNTITLED Miami Beach. In 2026, Huang will curate a two-person exhibition with Dominique Fung and Heidi Lau at the ICA San Francisco. Raised in Philadelphia, Huang earned a BA from Duke University and an MA in Modern & Contemporary Asian Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.

Sohrab Mohebbi
Sohrab Mohebbi was appointed director of SculptureCenter in 2022. He served as the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 2022-23. Mohebbi has also served as SculptureCenter’s curator-at-large (2020-21), and as curator between 2018 and 2020. Before joining SculptureCenter in 2018, he was associate curator at REDCAT in Los Angeles and curatorial fellow at the Queens Museum. He is an advisor at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and has organized exhibitions and programs for the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA; SALT, Istanbul; and the Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg, South Africa. He received an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BFA in photography from Tehran Art University. Mohebbi has organized solo exhibitions by Édgar Calel, Banu Cennetoğlu, Fiona Connor, Rafael Domenech, Tishan Hsu, Rindon Johnson, Hassan Khan, John Knight, Diane Severin Nguyen, and Falke Pisano, among others. His group exhibitions include Searching the Sky for Rain (2019), It is obvious from the map (2017; co-curated by Thomas Keenan) and Hotel Theory (2015; with Ruth Estévez), which received The Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award in 2013. In 2012, he was the recipient of a grant from the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program for his blog presencedocuments.

Sadaf Padder
Sadaf Padder is an independent curator, art advisor, and certified educator whose work spans exhibitions nationwide and has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artsy, ArtNews, and LA Weekly. Her practice centers education, community engagement, and sustained support of artists. She serves on the boards of the Vera List Center, Grown in Haiti, and 12 Gates Arts, and has been a visiting critic at Columbia University and RISD. She is also a contributing writer for Artsy and Hyperallergic.

Prerana Reddy
Prerana Reddy is currently the associate director of Artist Programs at Recess. Before that, she was the director of programs at A Blade of Grass, which supported socially engaged artists nationally through financial support, independent research, and content creation. From 2004-2018, she was the director of public programs and community engagement at the Queens Museum, where in addition to organizing their screenings, performances, discussions, and community-based collaborative programs and exhibits both on and offsite; she developed an intensive arts and social justice program for immigrant youth as well as a community development initiative for Corona, Queens residents, many of whom are new immigrants with mixed status families and limited English language proficiency. She has also curated Fatal Love, an exhibition of South Asian American Contemporary Art as well commissioned two editions of Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere, Queens Museum’s socially-interactive public art projects.