Caitlin Condell

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, USA
Assistant Curator and Acting Head

Caitlin Condell is a curator working as associate curator and head of the department of Drawings, Prints and Graphic Design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, where she oversees a collection of nearly 147,000 works on paper dating from the 14th century to the present. Previously, she served as a Fellow in the Research Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum from 2019 to 2020, and worked previously at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in the department of Prints & Illustrated Books from 2008 to 2010. Recent exhibitions and publications include Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer (2021), After Icebergs (2019), Nature— Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial (2019), Fragile Beasts (2016), and How Posters Work (2015) at Cooper Hewitt, and Making Room: The Space Between Two and Three Dimensions (2012) at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).

Caitlin Condell was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2016.

Caitlin Condell. Photo: courtesy of the curator.