Heather Pesanti is Senior Curator at The Contemporary Austin, where she has organized exhibitions on the work of Marianne Vitale, Liam Gillick, and Do Ho Suh. In 2014, together with Robert Storr, Pesanti was a visiting critic and lecturer in the Viewpoint Series at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to Austin, Pesanti was Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, where she organized the large-scale historical exhibition Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s.