About
Zoë Latzer is a writer and curator, currently serving as Curator and Director of Public Programs at the Institute of Contemporary Art San José. After five years at the ICA, she has worked across exhibitions, publications, public programs, outreach initiatives, and the integration of technology into audience engagement. Her practice centers on immersive, multi-sensory exhibitions that explore technology, mythology, and speculative, research-driven world-building. Latzer prioritizes collaborative care, supporting artists whose work engages archives, material experimentation, and cross-disciplinary research.
She holds a BA in History of Art and Visual Culture from UC Santa Cruz and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. At ICA San José, she has curated solo and group exhibitions including Blood Be Water, Allegedly the Worst Is Behind Us, Leymusoom Garden, In a Knotted World, and Blood, Sweat and Time. Her work foregrounds immersive environments, experimental narrative structures, and time-based media. Through her practice, Latzer develops exhibitions as research-driven ecosystems, enabling artists to expand media, reconfigure archives, and imagine alternate systems of social, technological, and environmental engagement.
Her exhibitions have been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Art in America, KQED, Square Cylinder, and Metro Silicon Valley.
To Give and Take by Greg Ito — opening September 19, 2026 at the ICA San José
Explores cycles of sacrifice, inheritance, care, and renewal through personal and collective memory, using The Giving Tree as a lens on emotional labor, survival, and intergenerational exchange.
Upcoming workshops
ICA San José and Recology AIR present a hands-on workshop on the afterlives of everyday devices. Participants will bring old screens, monitors, tablets, and smartphones to explore technological decay, materiality, and creative transformation through experimental processes. June 2 — Recology Environmental Learning Center, San Francisco (6pm); June 4 — ICA San José (6pm).
San José Climate Art Program meetup — June 2: A public gathering featuring artist Miguel Novelo, in conjunction with INFRAMUNDO at ICA San José and San José’s 2nd annual Energy Day.
Upcoming Projects