Young Contemporaries 2019

Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne is an LMU alumna (2000) who is currently the Project Strategist at Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA]. She is part of the LOHA leadership team responsible for identifying future projects and cross-disciplinary collaborations and oversees the firm's public relations outreach which includes the production of exhibitions and publications. Sinéad has over fifteen years of experience in curatorial practice, exhibition production, and studio management at small and midsized institutions throughout the region. She is the former Gallery Manager/ Assistant Curator at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena and the former Artistic Director of Gallery825/LA Art Association. She completed studies at University College, Dublin, Ireland, and received her B.A. in Art History from Loyola Marymount University. Sinead earned an M.A. in Museum and Curatorial Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where she received the College of Art Outstanding Thesis Award for her paper "Outward and Boundless: Painting in the Age of Expansion."

Steven Y. Wong is the curator of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the longest running institution in Los Angeles devoted solely to exhibiting art. Previously he was the Interim Executive Director and the senior staff curator at the Chinese American Museum (CAM) in Los Angeles. Prior to his work at CAM, he was the Director of Digital Literacy Initiatives at the Little Tokyo Service Center, and has lectured at UC Santa Barbara and was adjunct professor at Ventura College and Pasadena City College in Asian American Studies, History and Art Studio Departments. Still an artist at heart, Steven manages to create visual art and has exhibited in museums and galleries in Los Angeles and New York. Steven holds a Masters in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (1998) and a Master in Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2000).