SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research established its Advisory Board in September 2025, bringing together curators, cultural practitioners, alumni, and patrons whose experience and perspectives contribute to the development of the Center. Board members advise on SeaPort’s broader direction, recommend future residents, and contribute their knowledge and networks to the development of individual residencies. The Board provides an ongoing forum for exchange around the Center’s activities and future development.

Curators are invited to participate in SeaPort’s program through recommendations from members of the Advisory Board as well as through direct applications. This structure allows the program to remain open to new voices while drawing on the knowledge and perspectives of an international network of curators and cultural practitioners.

SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research is sustained through the ongoing activities of the Dor Guez Munayer Studio in Athens, together with the support of private donors. The Center operates independently, without reliance on external institutional funding, while maintaining collaborations with institutions and partners in Athens and internationally.

Dor Guez Munayer – Head of the Board. Guez is an artist and the founder and director of SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research. Drawing on his community in Lydda and his Palestinian and Tunisian family histories, his practice explores how images, archives, and material traces transmit knowledge and memory across generations. In 2006, he established the Samira Munayer Archive and later the Samira Munayer Scholarship Program, which supports Palestinian women pursuing higher education in art and related fields.

Batia Ofer – Board Member and Patron of SeaPort. Ofer is a London-based art collector, patron, and philanthropist, and Chair of the Royal Academy Trust at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She is actively involved in supporting contemporary art, curatorial initiatives, and cultural institutions internationally, with a focus on strengthening access to the arts and fostering long-term institutional development. Ofer holds advisory and trustee roles in leading arts organizations across Europe and the UK.

Josh Ginsburg – Curator, Director of A4 Art Foundation, a contemporary art laboratory dedicated to supporting artistic and curatorial research and production, and to creating an interface between the public and the processes through which contemporary art is developed. Under his leadership, A4 Art Foundation fosters experimental practices, interdisciplinary collaboration, and long-term engagement with artists and curators. A4 Art Foundation generously supports SeaPort’s programs and activities, contributing to the development of its curatorial research initiatives and international exchange.

Tal and Ariel Recanati – Board Member and Patron of SeaPort. Tal and Ariel Recanati are based in New York and are committed supporters of contemporary art and philanthropic cultural initiatives. They are engaged in fostering in-depth dialogue among diverse audiences and championing projects that encourage thoughtful cultural exchange, with a focus on supporting artists, curatorial practices, and institutions that contribute to the contemporary cultural landscape.

Anat Volfovich – Board Member and Patron of SeaPort. Volfovich is a New York–based lawyer and collector. She is a committed supporter of contemporary art, with a particular focus on artists whose practices engage questions of identity, history, and cultural narrative. Volfovich is actively involved in fostering dialogue between artists, institutions, and collectors, and in supporting initiatives that advance critical artistic production and curatorial research within an international context.

Mitra Monir Abbaspour – Curator and art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on photography and the modern art of West Asia and North Africa. She is currently the Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Head of the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at theHarvard Art Museums. Previously, she held senior curatorial positions at the Princeton University Art Museum, and earlier at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, where she was an Associate Curator in the Department of Photography. Her work focuses on how photography, archives, and visual culture construct historical knowledge, especially in relation to West Asia and North Africa and transnational modernisms. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions and published widely on contemporary art and photography.

Maya Benton – Curator and art historian based in New York. From 2008 to 2019, Benton was a Curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP), where she established a major archive and organized some of the most widely traveling exhibitions in the institution’s history. Her work focuses on photography, archives, and visual culture, with a particular emphasis on historical and documentary photography and the construction of memory and historical narrative through photographic archives.

Elisabeth Callinicos – Curator based in Athens and Milan, working across contemporary art, exhibition-making, and cultural strategy. She previously served as Director of Business Development at Goodman Gallery, where she contributed to the gallery’s international expansion and institutional collaborations. In her independent practice, Callinicos works with artists and cultural organizations across Europe, focusing on developing curatorial projects, fostering cross-regional dialogue, and supporting long-term artistic initiatives.

Benjamin Seroussi – Curator and artistic director of Casa do Povo, an independent and autonomous cultural center in São Paulo. His work focuses on curatorial practices that engage with memory, political imagination, and community-based artistic production, developing interdisciplinary programs that bring together contemporary art, performance, research, and public discourse.

Eugenio Viola – Art critic, scholar, and curator specializing in performance art, body politics, and contemporary practices that engage the body as a site of cultural, political, and social meaning. He previously served as Chief Curator at the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá (MAMBO), where he developed a curatorial program focused on contemporary and experimental art. Before that, Viola held key curatorial positions at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in Australia and at Museo MADRE in Naples, Italy. Across his career, he has developed an extensive curatorial practice centered on performance, interdisciplinary methodologies, and critical theory, working closely with artists internationally to explore the intersections of corporeality, identity, and contemporary visual culture.