Renny Pritikin was born in NYC and received his BA from the New School College in Manhattan and his MA from San Francisco State University in interdisciplinary art. He was co-director of New Langton arts with his wife, Judy Moran; founding chief curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for its first decade; and executive director of the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis for eight years. He has been a Fulbright fellow in New Zealand, a lecturer for the state department in four Japanese museums, and the curator of the American exhibition at the Cuenca, Ecuador Bienalle. He has been a senior adjunct professor in the graduate program in curatorial practice at CCA for the past eleven years. He is the author of four books of poetry, most recently A Quiet in Front of the Best Western (from Museum Quality Press), in 2015. He has been the Chief Curator at The CJM since April 2014.
