Curator's Biography

Catherine Taft is a Los Angeles based writer and curator.  Her essays on contemporary art and culture have appeared in publications including Artforum, Modern Painters, ArtReview, Metropolis M, X-Tra, The Journal. She has also contributed to various exhibition catalogs in the U.S. and abroad, which most recently include monographs on Sterling Ruby and Justin Lieberman.  In addition to her writing, Taft is Curatorial Assistant in the department of Contemporary Programs and Research at the Getty Research Institute, where she helped organize the 2008 exhibition, California Video.  She is now assisting on Pacific Standard Time, an exhibition and city-wide series of events focusing on postwar art in Los Angeles scheduled to open in fall of 2011. Taft has independently curated exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York and currently organizes an ongoing film and video series at Mandrake in Culver City. In spring of 2009, she will travel to Budapest, Hungary where she will present a series on west coast video art at the non-profit, experimental art space, Tranzit.