Pilar Tompkins is curator of the Claremont Museum of Art (CMA). Recent exhibitions include Multiverse, The Passerby Museum, Vexing: Female Voice of East L.A. Punk, solo exhibitions with Zoe Crosher and Maya Schindler at CMA and L'Ottava Tavola: An Etymology of Contemporary Codes in Cortona, Italy. Additionally, she is director of the Latin American branch of the Artist Pension Trust, APT: Mexico City, a program providing long-term financial and curatorial opportunities to artists around the world. In 2006 she was a founding director and curator of the MexiCali Biennial, a bi-national art exhibition and music event transcending the socio-poitical and physical constraints of the US/Mexico border. Ms. Tompkins has held positions as director of leading contemporary galleries The Project, MC, Anna Helwing Gallery and Patricia Faure Gallery where she worked with established artists from the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia including Julie Mehretu, Aernout Mik, Paul Pfeiffer, Jose Damasceno and Mark Bradford.