DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART APPOINTS ANNA KATHERINE BRODBECK AS ASSISTANT CURATOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART

The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that Anna Katherine Brodbeck, currently an associate curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art, has been named assistant curator of contemporary art. She will start the post in January 2017.

Gavin Delahunty, senior curator of contemporary art, said, “One of the many things that excited me about Katherine, and what set her apart from other short-listed candidates, is how she has taken her strong foundation in Latin American art to expand her knowledge of art histories and practices from across the globe.”

During her tenure at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Brodbeck collaborated with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art to organize the first comprehensive US retrospective of the influential Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica.

Previously, Brodbeck was a curatorial research assistant at the Frick Collection, where she worked on exhibitions including “Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition” (2011). She also served as a curatorial intern at New York’s MoMA and as a gallery assistant at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Brodbeck has also been an adjunct professor of art and art history at New York University and Hunter College. She earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU.