Katherine Carl is an art historian and currently curator of the James Gallery and deputy director of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center since 2011. She was Curator of Contemporary Exhibitions at The Drawing Center (2004-2007); this follows her work at Dia Art Foundation (1999-2003); manager of the international artists exchange program ArtsLink (1996-1997); and program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1991-1995). She has taught art history, theory and criticism and curatorial methods in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at The Graduate Center (since 2014), Tyler School of Art (2010), Parsons (2009), Moore College of Art (2009) and New York University (2002-2003). Carl received an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship in 2007 as well as numerous grants from The Trust for Mutual Understanding for her research and curatorial projects. She has lectured at Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Whitney Museum, New York, among other national and international venues. Carl's co-edited books are Lost Highway Expedition Photobook (2007) as part of her participation in the School of Missing Studies, and Evasions of Power (2011). Her writing has been included in Speculation Now (Vera List Center and Duke University Press, 2015) and Toward Participation as a Critical Spatial Practice (Sternberg Press, 2016). She holds a PhD in Art History and Criticism from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and a BA from Oberlin College.
Programming
Exhibitions
Tue, Nov 19, 2019 –
Sat, Feb 15, 2020,
12:00 PM – 07:00 PM
12:00 PM – 07:00 PM
Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of the Refugee Modernism
Conversation
Tue, Feb 11, 2020,
04:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Artist Talks on Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism
Project
Sat, Nov 23, 2024 –
Fri, May 31, 2019
En un cuartito los dos: Niño de Elche at the James Gallery
Exhibitions
Wed, Feb 6, 2019 –
Sat, Apr 13, 2019,
12:00 PM – 06:00 PM
12:00 PM – 06:00 PM
ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant
Reading and Conversation
Tue, Oct 30, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Ellen Rothenberg in Conversation with Katherine Carl
Conversation
Wed, Feb 7, 2018,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Sourcing Belief: From the Gulf Region of the Middle East to GCC’s Art Practice
Conference
Fri, Oct 13, 2017,
09:30 AM –
07:00 PM
Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Modern and Contemporary Art from Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe
Opportunity
Tue, Aug 1, 2017 –
Sun, Aug 20, 2017,
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Papers: Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Graduate Student Conference on Modern and Contemporary Art from Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe
Exhibitions
Wed, Feb 8, 2017 –
Sat, Mar 25, 2017,
06:00 PM – 06:00 PM
06:00 PM – 06:00 PM
NSK State Art: New York, The Impossible Return
Conference
Tue, Mar 7, 2017 –
Wed, Mar 8, 2017,
10:30 AM – 08:30 PM
10:30 AM – 08:30 PM
Art, Institutions, and Internationalism: 1933–1966
Exhibitions
Sat, Nov 19, 2016 –
Sat, Dec 17, 2016,
12:00 PM – 06:00 PM
12:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives, 1966-2016
Gallery Tour
Tue, Nov 22, 2016,
06:30 PM –
07:30 PM
Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives, 1966-2016
Panel Discussion
Mon, Nov 21, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Achieving Rapport: Art and Archives at Foksal Gallery
Exhibitions
Wed, Sep 7, 2016 –
Sat, Oct 29, 2016,
06:00 PM – 06:00 PM
06:00 PM – 06:00 PM
The House of Dust by Alison Knowles
Exhibitions
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 –
Fri, Aug 5, 2016,
12:00 AM – 12:00 AM
12:00 AM – 12:00 AM
Artists and Scholars: Five Years of Exhibitions and Programs
Exhibitions
Fri, Feb 5, 2016 –
Sat, Mar 19, 2016,
12:00 PM – 06:00 PM
12:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Capture Practice: Arkadi Zaides
Event
Fri, Feb 19, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Sovereign Selves? Choreography and Human Rights in the Archive
Exhibitions
Thu, Sep 3, 2015 –
Sat, Nov 21, 2015,
12:00 PM – 07:00 PM
12:00 PM – 07:00 PM
A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood
Conversation
Wed, Nov 18, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Transversal Methods and Social Choreography: Pelin Tan
Event
Wed, Sep 2, 2015,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood Exhibition Reception
Event
Wed, Feb 19, 2014,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
New Film Dark Matter: Innovations in Yugoslav Cinema in the Late 1960s
Event
Thu, Sep 20, 2012,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Cultural and Racial Legibility in Contemporary Abstraction
Exhibitions
Wed, Mar 14, 2012 –
Sat, Jun 2, 2012