Katie Pfohl has served as the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art since June 2015. She completed her Ph.D. in American Art at Harvard University in 2014, and has a wide range of curatorial experience including positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
In 2006, she completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Upcoming projects include a solo presentation for the Puerto Rican artist Carlos Rolón entitled Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, which explores the rich cultural and artistic connections between New Orleans, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories, which brings together seven contemporary artists to reflect on forgotten or marginalized histories of New Orleans. In 2015, Pfohl visited Cuba to attend the Havana Biennial with a group of scholars and curators, and much of her work at NOMA has explored New Orleans’ ties to Latin America and the Caribbean, from an upcoming presentation of NOMA’s collection of Op and kinetic art from Latin America to projects with contemporary artists like Carlos Rolón.