Catherine Craft

Catherine Craft is senior curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas and a scholar specializing in the history of twentieth-century art, especially Dada, Abstract Expressionism, and Neo-Dada.

She is the curator of such exhibitions at the Nasher as "Nairy Baghramian: Modele vivant" (2022), "Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures" (2021), "The Nature of Arp" (2018), which was also shown at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the 2015 traveling retrospective "Melvin Edwards: Five Decades." All were accompanied by a catalogue for which she was lead author and commissioning editor.

She is the author of "Robert Rauschenberg" (2013), "An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism" (2012), and "Jasper Johns" (2009). At the Nasher, she has written catalogue essays on Isamu Noguchi, Katharina Grosse, Lara Almarcegui, Rachel Harrison, and Liz Larner. Craft has presented talks at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and Yale University Art Gallery. Conversations between her and such artists as Melvin Edwards, Maren Hassinger, Michael Rakowitz, Carol Bove, and Nairy Baghramian have been posted on the Nasher Sculpture Center's YouTube channel. Craft holds a doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Dallas and New York City.