Kris Kuramitsu is an independent curator and consultant in Los Angeles.  As former Curator for the Collections of Eileen Harris-Norton and Peter Norton, she helped develop the Norton and Harris-Norton Collections, which have a 20 year history of acquiring work by emerging artists in all media. As former Director of Arts Programs for the Peter Norton Family Foundation, she oversaw the arts grantmaking of the Peter Norton Family Foundation, which primarily supports the exhibition of work by emerging and underrepresented visual artists. She recently curated the group exhibition Locale at Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles. As a writer, she has published an essay about the Norton Collections in the catalogue Linkages and Themes for the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, CA, as well as an essay on Hew Locke in a catalogue for his solo exhibition at the New Art Gallery in Walsall, England.  Previously, she was an administrator for a non-profit public art organization in Los Angeles. She received a BA in Art History from Pomona College and an MA in Art History with an emphasis in 20th Century Art from UCLA.