Selected




Projects 


Exhibitions
Residencies
Publications
Public Programs
Curatorial Research




January 8, 2025 (056 - Curatorial)
PRESS for Bassem Saad & Sanja Grozdanić’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



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

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,  μ (mu) - Commission - EMPAC


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


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 (EMPAC) - Co-Curated Performance














Projects Archive (under construction) ︎︎︎



Katherine C. M. Adams




About




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




Overview




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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Selected




Projects 


Exhibitions
Residencies
Publications
Public Programs
Curatorial Research


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


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














Projects Archive (under construction) ︎︎︎



Projects Archive (under construction)