Cathleen Chaffee

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, USA
Chief Curator

Dr. Cathleen Chaffee joined the The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, USA, in January 2014, and has been Chief Curator since September 2017. At the AKG, upcoming curated exhibitions include one dedicated to Stanley Whitney and Marisol Escobar. Past co-curated exhibitions include Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings (2022), concurrent with the Venice Biennale. During her tenure at the museum, Chaffee has organised exhibitions and authored accompanying publications for projects including Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective (2018), Joe Bradley (2017), Shade: Clyfford Still / Mark Bradford (2016), Erin Shirreff, Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Ecologies of Drama (2015–16), and Overtime: The Art of Work (2015), among others. Chaffee’s writing has been published in magazines such as Artforum, Frieze, Contemporary, Mousse, and Manifesta Journal. Chaffee has lectured widely on contemporary art and artists as well as topics including language and duration in minimal and conceptual art, the representation of labour in postwar art, artist-curated exhibitions, and the home and “home-like” in art after Duchamp.

Dr. Cathleen Chaffee was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2021.

Cathleen Chaffee. Photo: courtesy of the curator.