Amada Cruz is Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College, New York. Her career includes roles as Manilow curator of exhibitions (1995-1998) and acting chief curator (1998), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Curator of "Jennifer Pastor" (1996), "Jorge Pardo" (1997), "Performance Anxiety" (1997), and "Joe Scanlan: Pay For Your Pleasure (reprise)" (1997); co-curator, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling" (1994) and "Cindy Sherman: Retrospective" (1997).