Associate Curator

Guggenheim curator since 2001

Nat Trotman first joined the curatorial staff in 2001 as curatorial assistant for the exhibition Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle. In the years since he has curated numerous exhibitions for the museum, including most recently the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation in New York and Berlin, Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance (cocurated with Jennifer Blessing) in New York and Bilbao, and a pair of yearlong presentations of installation art in Bilbao. He has also worked closely with artists such as Meredith Monk, Susan Philipsz, and Francesco Vezzoli in developing performative and site-specific projects for the Guggenheim rotunda. In 2011, he will curate a new commission by Pawel Althamer for the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. Besides catalogue essays for several of the above exhibitions, Trotman has published on Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys, Jane and Louise Wilson, and others. He also cocurated The Shapes of Space with Ted Mann and Kevin Lotery, and served as assistant curator for Catherine Opie: American Photographer and Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America, and as curatorial assistant for Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History; David Smith: A Centennial; Richard Serra: The Matter of Time; and Constantin Brancusi: The Essence of Things. Trotman holds an M.Phil. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he focused on performance, photography, and time-based art, and is a graduate of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program.