Aay Preston-Myint (pronounced like the letter "A") is an artist, publisher, curator and educator working in the San Francisco Bay Area, after several years building a career and community in Chicago, Illinois. Their practice employs both visual and collaborative strategies to investigate memory and kinship, often within the specific context of queer community and history. In addition to their studio work, they have founded and led several cooperative efforts including No Coast, an artist partnership that prints and distributes affordable contemporary artwork, the Chicago Art Book Fair, and Chances Dances, a night life collective that supported and showcased the work of queer and trans artists in Chicago. They currently support Bay Area artist communities through Real Time and Space's studio and residency program, Southern Exposure's Curatorial Council, and the Board of Directors at Small Press Traffic, a seedbed for poets who push boundaries in the arts.
Recently:
Curator, Black Life event series, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, 2025
Designer, reSOURCE: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago, South Side Community Art Center, 2025.
Curator, High Five arts festival, Edge on the Square, 2024.
Sometimes:
Adjunct Professor in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts.
Faculty/Visiting Artist, Ox-Bow School of Art.
Studio Technician, ACRE Residency.
Formerly:
Executive Director, SF Camerawork. 2023-2024.
Senior Manager, Public Programs and Fellowships, Headlands Center for the Arts. 2018-2022.
Co-Founder, No Coast/No Coast Editions and the Chicago Art Book Fair. 2008-2019.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Depts. of Fiber and Material Studies and Printmedia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2012-2018.
Organizer, Chances Dances. 2005-2017.
Editor-in-Chief, Monsters and Dust. 2009-2014.