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Since 2016, Hamza Walker has served as director of The Brick, formerly known as LAXART, a non-profit alternative art space in Los Angeles. For over three decades, Walker has been chasing the same high. Ever since seeing avant-garde concerts and performances in late 80s Chicago, he has felt compelled to share a boundless curiosity about art. In the ensuing years, Walker has curated dozens of exhibitions ranging from solo to thematic exhibitions; from the production of new work to career surveys. Prior to LAXART, Walker served as Associate Curator/Director of Education at The Renaissance Society, a non-collecting museum of contemporary art on the University of Chicago campus. Recent exhibitions include MONUMENTS (2025-2026); Betsy Paige Smith Unshade Me Of You (2025) Gregg Bordowitz This is Not A Love Song (2025), Nikita Gale, Takers, (2022); Ari Marcopoulos/Joe McPhee Alone Together (2021); Kandis Williams/Cassandra Press’ The Absolute Right to Exclude (2021); and Postcommodity’s Some Reach While Others Clap (2020).