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Darin Klein : Bio

With an ever-expanding network of friends, Darin Klein curates and organizes exhibitions and arts programming, simultaneously creating, collecting and promoting artists' publications and independent media.

Recent and upcoming curatorial and arts programming endeavors include Tilt-Shift LA: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge and related public programs at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles; the traveling film program Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs (with Bradford Nordeen); Kevin Killian: Photographs (guest curator for Gravity and Trajectory, San Diego); the traveling film program New Skin for the Old Ceremony (with Lorca Cohen); a series of exhibitions and related public programs at Amy Adler's Echo Park Studio, Los Angeles; and Hammer Projects: Christopher Russell at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Klein has been producing, distributing and exhibiting solo and collaborative independent publications since 1991. A regular exhibitor at Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair, he is also a 2010 recipient of Printed Matter's Awards for Artists. His book arts retrospective, We ride them and Tingel-Tangel, was presented in 2010 at Baer Ridgway in San Francisco (curated by Margaret Tedesco; catalogue available). Recent and upcoming publishing projects include JIMMY: The Tilt-Shift LA Issue (guest editor); Box of Books Vols. I-V; and 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves #s 1-5.

In January 2007, he took the position of Programs Coordinator at the Hammer Museum, where he is currently Public Programs Associate. Overseeing the administrative aspects of approximately 300 public programs per year, Klein also regularly organizes performance showcases, film screenings, literary events and other Hammer programs of his own conception.