LOS ANGELES, CA.- Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) announced the appointment of Chloë Flores as Director of Learning & Engagement. A Senior Staff position, ICA LA’s Director of Learning & Engagement leads all education and public program activities at the museum. The Learning & Engagement program is vital and essential to the museum's mission is equally distinguished as the exhibition program. Removing the hierarchies that might ordinarily exist between curatorial and education departments, at ICA LA, these teams partner closely in the development of programs.
Flores is a Latinx Yaqui Native curator, writer, educator, and arts leader with more than twenty years of experience in Los Angeles’ arts sector. Working across performance, place, and advocacy, she has developed exhibitions, public programs, publications, residencies, and collaborative initiatives that examine power, history, equity, and belonging. She most recently served as Executive Director and Curator of homeLA.
Flores succeeds Asuka Hisa, who led ICA LA’s Learning & Engagement work for 27 years and played an essential role in shaping the museum’s artist-driven, community-centered approach to education and public programming. Flores was selected following an extensive national search and will work closely with Executive Director Anne Ellegood and Senior Curator Amanda Sroka to develop programs connecting the museum’s exhibitions, artists, audiences, and surrounding communities, creating a welcoming environment, advancing community outreach, and furthering meaningful partnerships.
As a member of the senior leadership team, she will participate and contribute to ICA LA’s current capital campaign, growing out of a rigorous strategic planning process approved by the Board of Directors in 2022, which includes expanding the Learning & Engagement program to reach more community members and enhance the museum’s role as a space of gathering, learning, and transformation.
“Chloë brings a deep understanding of Los Angeles, a collaborative approach to cultural work, and a strong commitment to building meaningful relationships between artists and audiences,” said Anne Ellegood, Executive Director. “Her experience and values make her uniquely suited to build upon Asuka’s remarkable legacy while bringing new ideas and communities to the museum and developing the next chapter of Learning & Engagement at ICA LA.”
Flores and Sroka, along with choreographer Dorothy Dubrule, have worked together on Shared Practices, a collaboratively authored document proposing more equitable standards and frameworks for presenting and supporting movement-based work within visual arts institutions.
“As a collaborator with Chloë on Shared Practices, and a longtime fan of her programming across Los Angeles, I have experienced firsthand the rigor, generosity, and care that she brings to her work,” said Sroka. “I am so excited to partner with Chloë on programming that deepens our ongoing institutional commitment to performance-based practices, and expands how audiences engage with our exhibitions and the ideas and urgencies shaping contemporary art today.”
In her new role, Flores will lead ICA LA’s Learning & Engagement department and oversee its public, educational, youth, and community-based initiatives.
Chloë Flores (she/her) is a Latinx Yaqui Native curator, writer, educator, and arts leader with over twenty years of experience working in Los Angeles’ art sector. She works at the intersection of performance, place, and advocacy—foregrounding movement-based and transdisciplinary practices that interrogate power, history, and belonging. Most recently, she served as Executive Director and Curator of homeLA, a dance-centered performance organization that promotes intersectionality through site-specific programming—bridging art, architecture, and the layered histories of Los Angeles. Her work spans exhibitions, performances, programs, publications, residencies, and coalition-driven initiatives that seek to redistribute resources and generate new models for care, equity, and critical exchange.
Most recently, she published Shared Practices, a performance equity framework developed through a collaborative process led by homeLA with choreographer Dorothy Dubrule and Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator at ICA LA. Her current curatorial projects span site-specific performance, feminist cultural programming, and architectural history, including a research-based curatorial initiative in dialogue with the Paul R. Williams retrospective at the J. Paul Getty Research Institute (Winter 2027) and Radical Kinship, an exhibition and programing that brings together work from artists working across collage, ceramic painting, sculpture, film, print, installation, and performance that consider kinship beyond colonial and individualist frameworks at the Feminist Center for Creative Work through August 2, 2026. She founded GuestHaus Residency (2011-2022), co-founded the Los Angeles Dance Worker Coalition, and spearheaded the development of the Department of Cultural Affairs’ first dance-specific grant program: Dance in the City.
She holds a dual B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from California State University Long Beach (honors), and an M.A. (cum laude) in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere from USC Roski. Her projects have been supported by the California Arts Council, Mike Kelley Foundation, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, J. Paul Getty GRI, Feminist Center for Creative Work, Cypress College, and the MAK Center. Additionally, Flores has held curatorial and production roles with LAMCA, Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), the Armory Center for the Arts, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, The Box, among others, and co-founded Long Beach’s enView Gallery (2005–08). Her writing appears in publications by the J. Getty Museum, University of Southern California, LACMA, UC Riverside’s California Museum of Photography, OCMA, Cypress College, and the Dance Resource Center.
