David Pace is a photographer, curator and educator. He received his MFA in 1991 from San Jose State University. He taught photography throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 25 years. Pace was director of Santa Clara University’s Study Abroad Program in West Africa. He documented changes in daily life in a small village in Burkina Faso over a 10-year period. Work from that portfolio was included in the 2019 Venice Biennale. Pace is currently the chair of the curatorial committee of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and a member of the acquisition committee of the San Jose Museum of Art. His work has been published and exhibited internationally.