Katie A. Pfohl
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, New Orleans Museum of Art
Katie A. Pfohl is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She completed her Ph.D. in art history at Harvard University in 2014, and has held positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2006, she participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Major group exhibitions at NOMA include Mending the Sky, focusing on artists responding to a world in distress, Bodies of Knowledge, reflecting on questions surrounding cultural preservation and historical memory, Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories, exploring forgotten or marginalized histories of New Orleans, and Ear to the Ground, examining environmental activism in contemporary art. Pfohl has also organized solo exhibitions for many emerging and established artists including Regina Agu, Alia Ali, and Torkwase Dyson.
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Curator-Led Digital Tour | EXPO CHGO ONLINE Environmental Thematic with Katie A. Pfohl Ph.D
This tour was streamed live on Thursday, April 8 at 2pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join Katie A. Pfohl, Ph.D., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and EXPO CHGO’s Environmental Curator, for a tour of select artworks from the digital exposition’s Environmental […] More information →
Curatorial Forum Presents | Weathering Regional Landscapes
Focusing on several recent curatorial and artistic projects anchored in the Gulf Coast—home to some of the fastest disappearing land masses in the world—this conversation considers how art can encourage new forms of environmental awareness, and invite new thinking about culture and community. How can art shed light on urgent local issues, while also looking beyond […] More information →