Manchanda, Catharina

Catharina Manchanda joined the Seattle Art Museum in 2011 as Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Contemporary Art. A native of Germany, she received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, specializing in German conceptual photography of the 1960s and 1970s. Her published writings address a range of topics from photography and conceptual art, to essays on individual artists such as Gerhard Richter, Thomas Demand, Braco Dimitrijević, Robin Rhode, and Cyprien Gaillard, among others.