Daisy Nam

Daisy Nam is the director and chief curator of CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco. She previously directed and curated Ballroom Marfa in Texas. Earlier she worked at Harvard's Carpenter Center and Columbia's School of the Arts. She completed a Surf Point residency in York, Maine, in 2019, alongside other curatorial fellowships including the Marcia Tucker fellowship at the New Museum. She co-edited the 2021 publication Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts with Paper Monument. Nam holds a master's from Columbia University and a bachelor's from New York University. She has taught at RISD and given visiting critic lectures at several Boston and New York institutions.