Katherine Rochester

Curator, art historian

MA Curatorial Practice

Education

BA, Grinnell College; MA, PhD, Bryn Mawr College


Professional experience includes

Curatorial director, Lehmann Maupin; director of curatorial research, VIA Art Fund; curatorial fellow, Getty Research Institute; curatorial research assistant, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia; program manager, The Soap Factory; fellow, Walker Art Center


Curatorial projects include

“Bauhaus Beginnings,” “Bauhaus: Building the New Artist,” “Monumentality,” Getty Research Institute; “Fellow Travelers,” Apex Art


Publications include

Intersubjectivity Volume II: Scripting the Human; Artforum; Feminist Media Histories


Presentations include

“Off-Color: Towards a Color Theory of Ecologies in Crisis,” “Beyond the Film Frame: The Animated Ornament in Exhibition,” College Art Association; “Minor Subjects: Children’s Content and the Ambiguity of the Fairy Tale in Interwar Animation,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies; “Lotte Reiniger and the Materiality of Animation,” Queen Mary’s College, University of London; “Silhouettes and Hieroglyphs: Animating Ornament in 1920s Berlin,” German Studies Association


Awards and honors include

Best Edited Collection, Society of Cinema and Media Studies; Gold Medal for Online Experience, American Association of Museums MUSE Awards; Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service; Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Freie Universitat Berlin