Katherine C. M. Adams
Katherine Adams is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. From 2023 to 2026, she was a curator at EMPAC, where she led the time-based visual arts program as Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts (2024–2026) after beginning as Assistant Curator (2023). She was a curator for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023 and has contributed to curatorial projects at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Curatorial Fellow, Berlin) and the Hessel Museum of Art (Curatorial Research Assistant, New York). She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard.
![Curatorial Projects (Performance) Pictured: Korakrit Arunanondchai & Tosh Basco, 'The Ghost takes us by the hand', EMPAC]()
![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']()
![Curatorial Work (Exhibitions; Commissions) Pictured: Suneil Sanzgiri, 'An Impossible Address,' EMPAC]()
![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. From 2023 to 2026, she was a curator at EMPAC, where she led the time-based visual arts program as Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts (2024–2026) after beginning as Assistant Curator (2023). She was a curator for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023 and has contributed to curatorial projects at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Curatorial Fellow, Berlin) and the Hessel Museum of Art (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. From 2023 to 2026, she was a curator at EMPAC, where she led the time-based visual arts program as Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts (2024–2026) after beginning as Assistant Curator (2023). She was a curator for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023 and has contributed to curatorial projects at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Curatorial Fellow, Berlin) and the Hessel Museum of Art (Curatorial Research Assistant, New York). She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard.
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![Curatorial Projects (Performance) Pictured: Korakrit Arunanondchai & Tosh Basco, 'The Ghost takes us by the hand', EMPAC]()
![Curatorial Projects (Exhibitions) Pictured: Lyndon Barrois Jr.'s work in 'Countercapture,' Miriam Gallery]()
![Curatorial Work (Exhibitions; Commissions) Pictured: Suneil Sanzgiri, 'An Impossible Address,' EMPAC]()
![Curatorial Work (Programs) - Pictured: Post Brothers in discussion on 'Porosity and Paranodal Space in Networked Art']()
![Theoretical Writing & Research - Pictured: FLAT Journal no. 2]()
![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. From 2023 to 2026, she was a curator at EMPAC, where she led the time-based visual arts program as Associate Curator, Time-Based Visual Arts (2024–2026) after beginning as Assistant Curator (2023). She was a curator for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023 and has contributed to curatorial projects at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Curatorial Fellow, Berlin) and the Hessel Museum of Art (Curatorial Research Assistant, New York). She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard.
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![Curatorial Projects (Performance) Pictured: Korakrit Arunanondchai & Tosh Basco, 'The Ghost takes us by the hand', EMPAC]()
![Curatorial Projects (Exhibitions) Pictured: Lyndon Barrois Jr.'s work in 'Countercapture,' Miriam Gallery]()
![Curatorial Work (Exhibitions; Commissions) Pictured: Suneil Sanzgiri, 'An Impossible Address,' EMPAC]()
![Curatorial Work (Programs) - Pictured: Post Brothers in discussion on 'Porosity and Paranodal Space in Networked Art']()
![Theoretical Writing & Research - Pictured: FLAT Journal no. 2]()
![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]()
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February 20-28, 2026 (063 - Curatorial)staging grounds Arts Festival - Commissions, Exhibition & Programs - EMPAC
October 29 - November 1, 2025 (061 - Curatorial)
Suneil Sanzgiri, An Impossible Address - Commission, Exhibition & Programs -EMPAC
June 4-22, 2025 ( 060 - Curatorial)
Time Signature - Demo Showcase Exhibition - New Museum’s NEW INC
Februray 18, 2025 ( 058 - 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
February 24, 2026 (064 - Curataorial)
PRESS for staging grounds - Tresca Weinstein for Times Union
February 6, 2026 (062 - Presentation
"Wing Theater’s" Living Archive: Stories and Stages with Artist Jewyo Rhii and Curator Katherine C. M. Adams - Asia Art Archive in America
October 20, 2025 (059 - Curatorial/Writing)
An Impossible Address: A Conversation - e-flux Film Notes
April 18, 2025 ( 057 - 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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