Sharon Mizota
Sharon Mizota is an art critic and archivist whose writing appears regularly in the Los Angeles Times. In 2011-12 she reviewed all 69 official “Pacific Standard Time” exhibitions in the series “PST: A to Z.” She has also written for Artforum, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, ARTNews and other publications. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers' Grant and a coauthor of the award-winning book, "Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art." Photo credit: Oliver Wang.
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