Chloë Flores (she/her) is a Latinx Yaqui Native curator, writer, and producer with over twenty years of experience working in the arts in Los Angeles. Her work centers on transdisciplinary, performative, and embodied practices that explore the complexities of identity, place, and space.  She is the director and curator of homeLA, a LA-based performance organization that promotes intersectionality through site-specific programming that bridges art, architecture, and Los Angeles’ various and layered histories.  She develops and produces exhibitions, public programs, texts, and experimental projects. 

Flores was Director of Programs at Heidi Duckler Dance (2021-22) and a co-founder of the Los Angeles Dance Worker Coalition (LADWC), a grassroots coalition (est. 2021) that  advocated for dancers during the pandemic by developing and launching the first dance-specific grant program for the DCA Performing Arts Division (2022): Dance in the Districts.

In 2011, she co-founded and began directing GuestHaus Residency (GHR)–an artist residency that supported Los Angeles nonprofits and artist-run spaces through housing for visiting visual and performing artists, writers, and curators globally. From 2011-2022, GHR partnered with over forty LA-based organizations and institutions to provide over 70 residencies in addition to hosting networking opportunities for guests, fundraisers, performances, reading groups, film screenings, workshops, discussion, salons, afters, and other social functions. Flores continues to lecture and offer recommendations on start-up residency programs, including France Los Angeles Exchange (FLAX) and the City of West Hollywood’s Laurel House.

Flores holds a dual degree in Creative Writing and Literature from the California State University, Long Beach where she graduated with honors. She received a M.A. (cum laude) in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design.  Her projects have been recognized and supported by the California Art Council, The Mike Kelley Foundation, Cypress College, and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.  Over the years, she has worked in various curatorial and production roles on exhibitions and programs for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Orange County Museum of Art, The Armory Center for the Arts, Monte Vista Projects, Cypress College Art Gallery, The Office, enView gallery, Sierra Nevada College, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and at the Mackey Garage Top, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and The Box gallery, Los Angeles. 

She has contributed texts and essays for exhibitions and catalogs for the University of California, Riverside’s California Museum of Photography; MAK Center for Art and Architecture Mackey Garage Top; University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design; Fallen Fruit and Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Orange County Museum; the J. Paul Getty Museum; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Dance Resource Center, Cypress College, The Sweeney Art Gallery at UC Riverside, among others.

Flores has lectured at undergraduate art programs nationally at the California College of Arts in San Francisco, California Institute for the Arts in Valencia, University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Sierra Nevada College, and for Chapman College in Orange County.  She has participated in discursive programming for Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto; Los Angeles Performance Practice, California State University, Long Beach, University Art Museum, Monte Vista Projects; the Art Theater of Long Beach, and the LGBT Center of Long Beach, CA. 

Flores co-founded and directed enView Gallery, an eclectic art space, community hub, and platform for emerging visual artists and experimental practices in Long Beach from 2005-2008.  Before this, she worked in International Museum Logistics as a Project Manager, handling the door-to-door logistics for international and domestic museum exhibitions and art.

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