Senior Curator, Collections and Exhibitions

Guggenheim curator since 1993

Tracey Bashkoff joined the Guggenheim in 1993 and has been curating collection-based exhibitions for the museum since 1997. For the Deutsche Guggenheim, she has organized the commissions and presentations of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto and John Baldessari, as well as the exhibitions On the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, and James Turrell and Chillida/Tàpies: Matter and Visual Thought.

Bashkoff has managed presentations of the Guggenheim Foundation's permanent holdings at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao since its inauguration, including: Louise Bourgeois; Process and Materiality in Art at the Mid-Twentieth Century; Kandinsky in Context; American Color Field Painting; and Passages: Beuys, Darboven, Kiefer, Richter.

In addition to her collection exhibitions, Bashkoff helped organize the following temporary presentations: Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections; A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection; Cristina Iglesias; Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective; Georg Baselitz; and Roy Lichtenstein. She is currently curating a retrospective of the paintings of Vasily Kandinsky to be held in New York in 2009 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the museum's opening.

Bashkoff completed her graduate studies at Northwestern University where she received a Mellon Fellowship in Art Objects.