Francesca Sonara is a curator, collector, and arts philanthropist based in New York City. She currently runs times new york city, a planned obscolescent space for experimental exhibitions.
Over the past 15 years, she has served as Director of Communications and Programming at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, advisor to a Private Collection in Northern California, and as a board member of JOAN in Los Angeles. Sonara holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies and has dedicated her practice to nurturing new models of nonprofit arts spaces that support experimental and underrepresented artists. Her work emphasizes collaboration, audience engagement, and sustainable structures for cultural experimentation, advancing a vision of arts organizations as dynamic, responsive, and community-rooted platforms for contemporary creativity.
