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 made a profound impact on the institution through transformative 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, new media, 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. She foregrounds immersive environments, experimental narrative structures, and time-based media.

Current and upcoming projects include Anoushka Mirchandani’s first solo institutional exhibition, tracing diasporic memory, matrilineage, and intergenerational healing through monumental hybrid figures and a participatory, sensory installation, and Miguel Novelo’s INFRAMUNDO, an immersive installation that fuses Mexican heritage, Indigenous knowledge, ecological systems, and interactive media. She is also developing a project at SF Camerawork with Nasim Moghadam.

Through her work, Latzer creates exhibitions as research-driven ecosystems, enabling artists to expand media, reconfigure archives, and imagine alternate systems of social, technological, and environmental engagement.