kathleenforde
Curator & Creative Producer
Time-Based Art
New York City
Projects
The Toledo Museum of Art & Superblue
April 29 – November 26, 2023
Superblue and The Atlantic
Ace Mission Studios, Los Angeles
May 13 – September 11, 2022
Featuring a soundtrack created by ANOHNI
The Shed, New York
September 29 – December 19, 2021
Superblue, Miami
May 20, 2021 – present
Selected Exhibitions 2012 - 2020
Bill Viola: Impermanence
September 14, 2019 – September 13, 2020Diana Thater: A Runaway World
September 16, 2017 – February 18, 2018Marina Zurkow: Flight
October 29, 2016 – February 19, 2017Allard van Hoorn: 034 Urban Songline (Water Score)
September 2015 – continuingJohn Gerrard: Exercise
January 23 – June 2014Carsten Nicolai: Strange Attractors
April 4 – August 23, 2015Overture: New Acquisitions
November 29, 2014 – March 22, 2015Seeing Eye to Eye: Recent Video
from Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
June – November 2014Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Biometric Abstraction
September 8, 2013 – February 2014Marco Brambilla: Megaplex Trilogy
March 1 – June 1, 2014Brigitte Kowanz: Cut a Long Story Short
September 15, 2012 – January 20, 2013Daniel Canogar: River of History
January 14 – May 13, 2012
Selected Exhibitions 2012 - 2019
Ceal Floyer: Things
June 15 – September 22, 2019Tristin Lowe: Under the Influence
October 6, 2018 – January 13, 2019Marcel Dzama: A Jester’s Dance
May 19 – September 23, 2018Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter
December 16, 2017 – April 15, 2018Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece
December 2, 2017 – May 13, 2018Mark Bradford: Spiderman
July 30 – November 27, 2016
Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016)
April 2 – July 24, 2016Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room
January 23 – May 22, 2016Ferhat Özgür: Metamorphosis Chat
December 5, 2015 – March 27, 2016Jem Cohen: Life Drawing
August 19 – November 29, 2015Sophie Calle: North Pole
May 2 – August 9, 2015Guido van der Werve:
Nummer veertien Home
December 13, 2014 – April 26, 2015Amie Siegel: Provenance
August 16 – December 7, 2014Laurie Anderson: From the Air
April 6 – August 11, 2013Francis Alÿs: Guards
December 15, 2012 – April 20, 2013Jesper Just: This Nameless Spectacle
August 18 – December 2012
Audemars Piguet Art Commission 2017
Art Basel Miami Beach
December 4-10, 2017
Frye Museum of Art, Seattle
May 20 – September 3, 2017
Sonic Protest Festival, Paris
April 2-3, 2015
Barbican Centre, London
March 31, 2015
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn, NY
September 2013
Originally commissioned for the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, NY
LaBoral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain
October 5, 2012 – March 2013
Selected Exhibitions 2009 - 2012
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy: Index
April 6 – October 13, 2012Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator
March 5 – July 28, 2012Japanther: The Cake of the 3 Towers
December 2011Dancing on the Ceiling:
Art and Zero Gravity
2010Early Morning Opera: Abacus
October 2010The Wooster Group:
There is Still Time..Brother
2008Laurie Anderson: Delusion
2010
Speaking
East Hampton, NY
September 23, 2023
On the occasion of DRIFT’s exhibition Fragile Future
The Shed, New York
October 14, 2021
Interview with Kathleen Forde and Margot Mottaz
No Proscenium Podcast
August 27, 2021
On the occasion of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Abstracción Biométrica
Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
June 6, 2014
On the occasion of Daniel Canogar: River of History
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
January 13, 2012
Writing
In Hidden Patterns: Visualizing Networks at Barabasi Lab
Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2021
MFA Thesis Exhibition
The New School, New York
2019
Borusan Contemporary, 2017
Editor and Contributor
"Foreword"
“Rachel Rossin” (Curator’s Interview)
“Marina Zurkow” (Curator’s Interview)
in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pseudomatism
RM/MUAC, Barcelona, 2016
in More&More (The Invisible Oceans)
Punctum Books, Santa Barbara, 2016
in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Vicious Circular Breathing
Borusan Contemporary, 2013
ARTPULSE, 2013
Quadratura exhibition catalog
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa, 2012
Interviewed in Digitalarti #5
January/February/March 2011
EMPAC, 2010
VCUarts Anderson Gallery and University of Virginia Press, 2008
Independent Curators International, 2005
Bio
For more than twenty years, Kathleen Forde’s career as a time-based arts curator has encompassed the spheres of exhibition, performance, and technology. In addition to her work rooted in exhibition curation, she has a specific focus on projects in which she works with artists on ambitious new commissions. She has worked both independently and on staff with numerous institutions including Superblue, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Shed (NYC), Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul), the Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (Troy, NY), the Eyebeam Center for Art & Technology, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Audemars Piguet, Telefonica (Madrid), Transmediale (Berlin), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.Kathleen is currently Director and Curator of Media Arts at the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation.Previously, Forde was the Artistic Director at Large for Borusan Contemporary, a collection-based space for media arts exhibitions, commissions, and public programming in Istanbul. During her tenure at BC she curated and toured numerous solo exhibitions by artists such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Carsten Nicolai, Diana Thater, Bill Viola and John Gerrard, and collaborated with curators and institutions that include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Espacio Telefonica Madrid, La Boral Gijon, and the Kunsthalle Darmstadt.From 2005 to 2012 Forde was the Curator of Time-Based Visual Arts at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, NY. At EMPAC she commissioned and/or produced a broad range of new work by artists that included The Wooster Group, Laurie Anderson, Japanther, Jem Cohen, and Ben Rubin, and curated exhibitions such as Dancing on the Ceiling: Art and Zero Gravity.Prior to EMPAC, Forde was the Curatorial Director for Live Arts and New Media at the Goethe Institut Internaciones in Berlin and Munich. As Curatorial Associate and then Assistant Curator for Media Arts at SFMOMA (1999–2002), she co-curated the interdisciplinary show 010101: Art in Technological Times in addition to ongoing work with both temporary and permanent collection exhibitions.She is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in the MA Curatorial Practice program. In 2010 Forde was a fellow in the 2010 Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) fellowship class and held an Alexander von Humboldt research scholarship in Berlin from 2002–2003. She earned an MA in Post-1945 Art and Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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