Katherine C. M. Adams
Katherine Adams is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. She is currently Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts, at EMPAC (The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York). She served as a Curator for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023 and has assisted curatorial projects at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (as a Curatorial Fellow; Berlin, DE) and the Hessel Museum of Art (as Curatorial Research Assistant; New York). She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard.
![Curatorial Projects (Exhibitions) Pictured: Lyndon Barrois Jr.'s work in 'Countercapture,' Miriam Gallery]()
![Curatorial Work (Programs) - Pictured: Post Brothers in discussion on 'Porosity and Paranodal Space in Networked Art']()
![Theoretical Writing & Research - Pictured: FLAT Journal no. 2]()
![Curatorial Work (Performance) - Pictured: Performance by Jayson P. Smith shown at Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, 2021]()
![Art Writing (Catalogue Essays, Exhibition Texts, Writing on Art & Artists) - Pictured: Text for Esther Hovers's 'Traveling Salesman' series]()
![Curatorial Research - Residencies & Ongoing Projects]()
![Curation of The Immigrant Artist Biennial]()
Katherine Adams is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. She is currently Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts, at EMPAC (The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York). She served as a Curator for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023 and has assisted curatorial projects at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (as a Curatorial Fellow; Berlin, DE) and the Hessel Museum of Art (as Curatorial Research Assistant; New York). She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard.
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Katherine C. M. Adams
Katherine Adams is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. She is currently Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts, at EMPAC (
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York). She served as a Curator for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023 and has assisted curatorial projects at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (as a Curatorial Fellow; Berlin, DE) and the Hessel Museum of Art (as Curatorial Research Assistant; New York). She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard.
![Curatorial Projects (Exhibitions) Pictured: Lyndon Barrois Jr.'s work in 'Countercapture,' Miriam Gallery]()
![Curatorial Work (Programs) - Pictured: Post Brothers in discussion on 'Porosity and Paranodal Space in Networked Art']()
![Theoretical Writing & Research - Pictured: FLAT Journal no. 2]()
![Curatorial Work (Performance) - Pictured: Performance by Jayson P. Smith shown at Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, 2021]()
![Art Writing (Catalogue Essays, Exhibition Texts, Writing on Art & Artists) - Pictured: Text for Esther Hovers's 'Traveling Salesman' series]()
![Curatorial Research - Residencies & Ongoing Projects]()
![Curation of The Immigrant Artist Biennial]()
Katherine Adams is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. She is currently Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts, at EMPAC (
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York). She served as a Curator for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023 and has assisted curatorial projects at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (as a Curatorial Fellow; Berlin, DE) and the Hessel Museum of Art (as Curatorial Research Assistant; New York). She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard.
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June 4-22, 2025 ( 062 - Curatorial)
Time Signature - Demo Showcase Exhibition - New Museum’s NEW INC
Februray 18, 2025 ( 061 - Writing )
Voice Decomposing Opera - Nour Mobarak at MoMA - Performance Art Museum Reviews
January 8, 2025 (056 - Curatorial)
PRESS for Bassem Saad & SanjaGrozdanić’s Permanent Trespass at EMPAC - Feature in print and online - Frieze
November 6 - December 11, 2024 (053 - Curatorial)CUT SCENE - Exhibition - Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts
October 28th, 2024 (054 - Writing)
The Stage on Screen: Dramaturgy and Distribution - Essay- e-flux Film Notes
October 25, 2024 (053 - Curatorial)
Bassem Saad & Sanja Grozdanić, Permanent Trespass (Beirut of the Balkans & the American Century) - Commission - EMPAC
September - November 2024 (051 - Curatorial)
Surge Conditions - Curatorial Series - EMPAC - Projects: in a plenum space (Thuy-Han Nguyen Chi; Tatiana Mazú González); Both, Instrument & Sound (Sharlene Bamboat); µ (mu) (Marina Rosenfeld)
December 21st, 2023 (049 - Curatorial)
PRESS for TIAB Contact Zone biennial exhibitions at EFA Project Space and Alchemy Gallery - Review/Feature - C-Print Journal
November 2023 (047 - Writing)
“From Tragic Mulatto to Cinematic Blackout” - Essay - e-flux Journal
August 21, 2023 - (045 - Writing)
“ No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image” - Review - Journal of Curatorial Studies
June 23, 2023 (044 - Writing)
Aria Dean’s “Figure Sucia” - Review - e-flux Criticism
April 28, 2023 (042 - Curatorial)
DeForrest Brown Jr., Speakers that Speak to You, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center - Co-Curated Performance
April 18, 2025 ( 063 - Presentation)
Curating Performance Symposium - NYU Performance Studies
December 2024 (055 - Curatorial)
PRESS for Marina Rosenfeld’s μ (mu) - Andrew v. Uroskie on the 15th Gwangju Biennale
November 8, 2024 (054 - Curatorial)
Marina Rosenfeld - Commission - EMPAC - μ (mu)
October 2024 (052 - Curatorial)
Decommission - Curatorial Series - EMPAC - Projects: a gift horse’s mouth (Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen, Ho Rui An, Bahar Noorizadeh, Total Refusal, and Wu Tsang); MIKE (Dana Michel); Works in Sensing and Feeling (Constantina Zavitsanos)
February 2024(050 - Public Programs)
“Who is Shubigi: The Edified Wrath with Ecological Groundedness,” Rockbund Museum of Art - Roundtable presentation and discussion - with Alfonse Chiu, X Zhu-Nowell, Shubigi Rao
December 7th, 2023 (048 - Curatorial)
“In Pursuit: Short Films,” Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) - a film program on exile and statelessness
September 2023 (046 - Writing)
“Withdrawals of the “Image” and Ruptures of Archival Form: Walid Raad’s The Atlas Group” - Journal Article - Afterimage: Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism
May 2023 (045 - Writing)
Esther Hovers, “The Right to be Forgotten,” Galerie Bohai, Hannover - Exhibition Text
April 1 - May 28, 2023 (043 - Curatorial)
Boundary Monuments Dissolve, Hessel Museum of Art - Exhibition
April 1, 2023 (042 - Curatorial)
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Hessel Museum of Art - Program
February 04, 2023 (037 - Curatorial)
Pogo Bar - virgil b/g taylor: zur entwichlung Jüdenstraße, KW Institute for Contemporary Art
June 2022 (033 - Writing)
FLAT Journal (UCLA) - Haptic Shadows: Sound as Inscriptive Contact in Choreographic Performance
FLAT Journal (UCLA) - Haptic Shadows: Sound as Inscriptive Contact in Choreographic Performance
November 2021 (029 - Curatorial Residency)
Easttopics ‘East Call’ - Curatorial Residency (remote for Fall 2021)
Easttopics ‘East Call’ - Curatorial Residency (remote for Fall 2021)
Spring 2021 (028 - Curatorial/Program & Theory)
Porosity & Paranodal Spaces in Networked Art, ‘Sheltering Places,’ The New Centre for Research & Practice - Discussion with Ceci Moss and Matthew Post (Post Brothers)
Porosity & Paranodal Spaces in Networked Art, ‘Sheltering Places,’ The New Centre for Research & Practice - Discussion with Ceci Moss and Matthew Post (Post Brothers)
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