Ed Schad is Curator and Publications Manager at The Broad in Los Angeles, where his curated exhibitions include Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows, Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, and Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again. Ed’s writing has been included in Art Review, Frieze, Modern Painters, Flash Art, The Brooklyn Rail, The L.A. Weekly, Gagosian Quarterly, Truthdig, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. In addition, he has contributed essays to dozens of mono-graphic catalogs, including on the work of Robert Irwin, Natalie Frank, Roy Dowell, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Sterling Ruby, and Kaz Oshiro. His first collection of poetry — Letters Apart, a collaboration with the painter Liat Yossifor — was published in Spring, 2023 by University of La Verne, and his poems have been published in the Blue Collar Review, Suturo, and The Nonconformist. In 2021, he became a fellow of The Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC.