Valerie Imus is the Exhibitions and Programs Manager. As a collaborative member of the collectives The Citizens Laboratory and OPENrestaurant, her recent projects include April Ful’s Night at the Oakland Museum of California, OPENeducation, a project at the Berkeley Art Museum for the Edible Schoolyard Foundation, and OPENwater, as part of SFMOMA’s Infinite City: Poison/Palate series. Formerly, she was the Exhibitions Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and prior to that, the Curatorial Associate at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art at CCA. She has also organized recent projects at the Oakland Museum of California and curated exhibitions and public projects for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and written for ArtPractical and Stretcher. As a former member of the Southern Exposure curatorial committee, she organized the projects Radical Citizenship: The Tutorials; We Are All Together, Alone in the Wilderness; Scopes and Scapes; and Hopeless and Otherwise. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.