CV

Contact

katy@katycrocker.com

Education

Master of Arts in Curatorial Practice (magna cum laude), California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2013-15

Bachelor of Arts in Art History (magna cum laude), College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, 2003-07

academic appointments

Graduate Research Fellow, Joan Jonas is on our mind, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 2014-16

Presenter, Curatorial Practice Thesis Symposium, California College of the Arts, 2015

Teaching Assistant and Lecturer, Introduction to Modern Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2014-15

Presenter, Martin Wong: Curator’s Talk, The Battery, San Francisco, 2014

Presenter to Board of Advisors (selected student on behalf of Art History Department), Development Conference, College of Santa Fe, 2007

Publications

Author, Fish in my leg (book of poems), Acres, Oakland, 2019

Assistant Editor, Joan Jonas Is on Our Mind (book), ARTBOOK, New York, 2017

Author, Stillness as a Strategy for Political Resistance in the Early Performances of Bonnie Sherk (thesis), San Francisco, 2015

Editor and Art Director, This is the proof (catalogue to accompany first exhibition), CTRL+SHFT, Oakland, 2015

Curatorial Respondent, "Martin Wong was an innovator of a chaotic cross-disciplinary oeuvre in addition to being a painter, ” Visual AIDS, New York, 2015

Art Director, Generation, Hybrid, Transmission (SFiCA exhibition posters), San Francisco, 2013-14

Editor and Essayist, Willy Bo Richardson: Music To Drive To (catalogue to accompany Jason McCoy Gallery exhibition), New York, 2012

Assistant Editor and Arts Journalist, AdobeAirstream (online arts journal for the far west), 2009-13

Projects

Curatorial and Founding Member, CTRL+SHFT (women and womenx exhibition and studio collective), Oakland, 2015-16

Curatorial and Founding Member, SFiCA (art programming collaboration between graduate students of California College of the Arts and San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco, 2013-15

Exhibitions and programming

Curator, Danielle Genzel: Ssstatic, forthcoming

Curator, Micah Wood: Cosmic Wimpout, Hyperimmateria (video conference as exhibition), shelter in place, 2020

Curator, Now or Never (video and new media art exhibition), CTRL+SHFT gallery, Oakland, 2017

Curator, Soft Serve, CTRL+SHFT gallery and studios, Oakland, 2015

Curator, Too Much World: Recent Works by Minji Sohn and Ben Quinn, Cranium Gallery, San Francisco, 2015

Curator, Martin Wong: Painting is Forbidden, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 2015

Curator, One Artist Laughing with Micah Wood, San Francisco, 2014 (as part of Sound Picnic, San Francisco/Oakland, 2014 with Richard Julin)

Curator, Early Performance in California (web-based compilation for research project), California College of the Arts, 2014

Curator, Somewhere in Berlin, California College of the Arts gallery, 2014

Curatorial Participant, Curatorial speed dating, SFiCA, San Francisco, 2014

Curator, Generation, Some Thing Spacious, Oakland, 2014

Curator, Pretty Things in Ugly Places, abandoned buildings in Northern New Mexico, 2011

Additional experience

Writer, Acres Design Studio, Oakland, 2016-ongoing

Studio Manager, Patricia L Boyd, San Francisco, 2016-17

Exhibition Assistant, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, 2013-14

Curatorial Assistant, The Contemporary, Austin, 2011-2012

Communications Assistant, Museum of International Folk Art (for Santa Fe International Folk Art Market), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2010

Volunteerism

Studio Assistant, Creative Growth, Oakland, Summer 2013

Guest Lecturer, Texas Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Fort Worth, 2012

Juror, Short Films, Santa Fe Film Independent Festival, 2010

Guest Lecturer, Gallery Practices Class, Santa Fe Community College, 2009

Friends of Contemporary Art Board Member, New Mexico Museum Foundation, 2009