Join us on Thursday, December 12, from 6–8 PM at Artpace San Antonio for an engaging Curator Talk with Regine Basha. Visiting from Madrid, Spain, Basha is starting her Texas studio visits this December to select an artist for the Fall 2025 International Artist-in-Residence program. Help us welcome her to San Antonio as she shares insights into her career, curatorial philosophy, and vision for the upcoming residency. The evening will conclude with a Q&A session.
About Regine Basha
Regine Basha, born into an Iraqi-Jewish family, has spent significant portions of her career in Montreal, Los Angeles, and New York, where she was Director of Residencies at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn. From 2002 to 2008, she lived in Austin, Texas, where she co-founded Testsite and Fluent-Collaborative in 2003 with Laurence Miller.
During her time in Texas, she also held the role of Adjunct Curator at Arthouse, now The Contemporary Austin. Basha’s notable exhibitions in Texas include Daniel Bozhkov: Cantata for 12 Choirs and Several Salamanders; The Gospel of Lead: Jeremy Blake + Dario Robleto; Steve Roden + Stephen Vitiello at Lora Reynolds Gallery; Basim Magdy at Austin’s Okay Mountain; Julieta Aranda – You Gad No 9th of May! at Sala Diaz; Nina Katchadourian at Testsite; The Rules of Basketball Works by Paul Pfeiffer at the Blanton Museum UT Austin; Seedlings at Dallas Contemporary; and The Marfa Sessions at Ballroom Marfa and most recently Voice of Coralwith Miguel Sbastida at Galveston Art Residency. Her full curatorial history can be accessed at bashaprojects.com
Basha has often worked in collaboratives with projects concerning borders, displacement, and issues in public space, such as with Insite 97 Tijuana/San Diego, The Brewster Project, NY; Without You I’m Nothing, Platform Istanbul; When You Cut Into The Present The Future Leaks Out, Old Bronx Courthouse and Dar Al Suhl with Michael Rakowitz as well as her online story-telling archive Tuning Baghdad.