Left to Right: David Ross, Suzanne Anker, Frank Gillette and DJ Hellerman in conversation on February 8, 2019
DJ Hellerman is a curator based in Syracuse, New York. As the Curator of Art & Programs at the Everson Museum of Art, he works with the museum's historic video collection dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Everson began avidly collecting video and moving image works.
DJ collaborates with artists on commissioned, site-specific, and interdisciplinary projects that utilize the Everson’s video collection and emphasize experimental practices within the field of contemporary art and moving images.
His research interests center around early video work, the relationship between art, technology, and spirituality, definitions of American Art, popular culture, place-based art making, and the development of cultural institutions in post-war American Cities.
Currently, DJ is in the midst of digitizing the Everson’s video collection and developing an exhibition with San Francisco-based artist Tony Labat. Recent exhibitions include YOKO ONO: REMEMBERING THE FUTURE, Strata: Frank Gillette and Suzanne Anker co-curated with David Ross, Jeff Donaldson: Dig, Vanessa German: de.structive dis.tillation, Adam Milner: Late Night Space Force, Edie Fake: Structures Shift, T.R. Ericsson: I Was Born To Bring You Into This World, Björn Schülke: Traveling Spy, and Mildred Beltré: DreamWork.
This fall, as a part of the conference titled “Questioning the Non-Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Art,” supported by Karl-Franzens-Universität, DJ presented The Angel & The Machine. At the 2019 NCECA conference, he presented The Past Predicts The Future: Untold Histories Of Exhibitions That Changed The Course of Ceramics In America.
DJ teaches at Syracuse University, received his M.A. in Art History from Case Western Reserve University, and his B.A. in English and Philosophy from Lake Erie College.
