Tanya Zimbardo is a curator and writer based in San Francisco. She has guest (co-)curated exhibitions and related public programs at the Berkeley Art Center; di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art; Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Mills College Art Museum; / (Slash); 500 Capp Street Foundation, among others. Zimbardo has curated select artist film and video screening programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, independently, and for organizations such as Artists' Television Access, Canyon Cinema Foundation, San Francisco Cinematheque, and McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. She recently curated and co-edited the catalog Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970 (Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture). Zimbardo regularly gives public lectures and guest talks to higher education classes.

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As the assistant curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she curated several exhibitions including Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors and Bay Area Walls: Jenifer K. Wofford currently on view at the museum. She curated solo presentations of Jim Campbell, Runa Islam, Pat O'Neill, Susan Philipsz, and Kerry Tribe, as well as the two-person and group exhibitions Speculative Portraits, Future Histories: Theater Gates and Cauleen Smith, and The Studio Sessions, among others. Zimbardo co-curated Nothing Stable under Heaven, Soundtracks, Nam June Paik: In Character, The More Things Change, Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, among others. She worked on numerous SFMOMA exhibitions including surveys with catalogues of William Kentridge and Suzanne Lacy. She participated in an interdepartmental working group dedicated to the care of time-based media art and related events about preservation.​