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Rebecca Matalon is Senior Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), where she has organized solo and group exhibitions with Garrett Bradley, Mariah Garnett, Leslie Hewitt, Lisa Lapinski, Leslie Martinez, Diane Severin Nguyen, Cauleen Smith, and Jordan Strafer, and, in 2021, the two-person exhibition Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves. Matalon is currently organizing the first survey exhibition of the work of Mary Ellen Carroll, for which she was awarded a Teiger Foundation Grant. Previously, she was Assistant Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she organized exhibitions including Tongues Untied (2015), Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady? (2016), Welcome to the Dollhouse (2018), and Décor: Barbara Bloom, Andrea Fraser, Louise Lawler (2018). In 2018, Matalon co-organized Zoe Leonard: Survey, a major mid-career retrospective of the work of Zoe Leonard, which debuted at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York before traveling to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Matalon was a Co-Founder, and from 2015–2018, Curator at JOAN, a not-for-profit exhibition space in Los Angeles that is dedicated to presenting the work of emerging and under-represented artists. She serves on the board of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and was on the Organizing Committee of Texas Talks Art, a multi-institutional initiative that launched in January 2021.