Katherine Brinson

The Guggenheim Museum, New York
Curator

Katherine Brinson serves as Daskalopoulos Curator for Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States, which she joined in 2005. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the former Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, including Etel Adnan: Light’s New Measure (2021–22); The Hugo Boss Prize 2020: Deana Lawson, Centropy (2021); Simone Leigh (2019); Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away (2018); Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap (2017).  She is one of the organising curators for the museum’s International Directors’ Council. She holds a BA in English literature from University of Oxford and an MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Katherine Brinson was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2019.

Katherine Brinson. Photo: Maciek Kobielski and Interview Magazine.