Associate Curator

Guggenheim curator since 2005

Katherine Brinson joined the curatorial staff in 2005. She holds a BA in English Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In the past year she has curated THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (cocurated with Nancy Spector), and Agathe Snow: All Access World at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. She served as Associate Curator on Maurizio Cattelan: All; as Assistant Curator on theanyspacewhatever and Tino Sehgal; and as Curatorial Assistant on Richard Prince: Spiritual America and Louise Bourgeois. Brinson works closely with the Guggenheim’s Intervals program, an ongoing series of experimental projects by emerging artists, for which she curated Intervals: Ryan Gander, and cocurated Intervals: Julieta Aranda and Intervals: Kitty Kraus. She is also one of the organizing curators for the museum’s Young Collectors Council, which focuses on acquiring the work of emerging artists for the permanent collection, and coordinates the Hugo Boss Prize, a biennial award administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation that recognizes significant achievement in contemporary art.