Candice Strongwater is an independent curator and Senior Manager of Research and Curatorial Initiatives at SITU Research. She coordinates the team’s visual investigations and focuses on how investigative findings are presented across legal and diplomatic contexts, as well as in cultural and artistic settings. Recent projects include Patterns of Life (2024), developed with SITU and Mona Chalabi at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and Visual Investigations: Between Advocacy, Journalism and Law (2024) at the Architekturmuseum der TUM. She is currently co-curating an exhibition opening in the Fall of 2026 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.
Candice holds an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, where she curated Classroom Arsenal (2021), a group exhibition drawing on Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, and co-taught a course on photography’s vexed relationship to human rights claims. he has contributed a commissioned essay on the student body as both image and dataset to RIGA (Riga Technoculture Research Unit) at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia, and has co-authored forthcoming writing in Senses of Cinema. Previously, from 2015 to 2020, she was Associate Curator and Head of Public Programs at Red Bull Arts New York.
