Sheeka Arbuthnot is a San Francisco-based curator and writer. Recent curatorial projects have included Circular Motion: Subverting Circumscription at Meridian Gallery in San Francisco and Video Guerrilha in São Paulo, Brazil and the Mid Market Art Project in San Francisco. Her upcoming exhibition is American Beauty: The Opulent Pre-Depression Architecture of Detroit. She has assisted in curatorial projects at El Museo del Barrio (New York) and Sonoma County Museum. She holds a BA in Art History from Mills College and a MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art from San Francisco Art Institute. Her writings have been published in Cement. She is the recipient of the Mary Laughlin Beardmore Award in Art History, the Searing Dhaemers Art History Award, and the Excellence in Scholarship, Master of Arts Thesis Award.