Ana Iwataki is a writer, curator, and organizer from and based in Los Angeles. Her work is grounded by her scholarly, political, and intimate commitments to the production of culture in diasporic and hyperlocal contexts. She is the co-editor of X Topics, a forthcoming imprint of X Artists’ Books and was the consultant for the ACLU of Southern California’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence program. As a community organizer, she is embedded in a history of art and activism in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Current curatorial projects include a 2023 solo exhibition of the artist Yoshie Sakai at the Vincent Price Art Museum and a collaborative project with Alexandra Grant, Marion Vasseur Raluy, and Hélène Cixous, for which she received the 2021 Étant Donnés Curatorial Research Fellowship. 

She is a PhD candidate in Comparative Media and Culture at the University of Southern California. She received a BA in Art History from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA and MA in Curatorial Studies from the Sorbonne, Paris, France.  

Photo: Naoki Sutter-Shudo

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