Kate Kraczon

Kate Kraczon is the Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator of the Brown Arts Institute / David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University. Joining Brown in fall 2019 as Curator, Kraczon oversees the Brown Arts Institute’s exhibition program, which includes The Bell and its growing collection of over 7,000 works in List Art Center, the Cohen Gallery in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and Brown’s robust Public Art program. As a member of the BAI leadership team, Kraczon builds programs across campus and within the Lindemann Performing Arts Center. Kraczon is also involved in many aspects of the BAI’s academic program. Since joining the BAI, Kraczon has curated solo exhibitions with artists Julien Creuzet, Franklin Williams, Elisabeth Subrin, Savannah Knoop, Jules Gimbrone, Hartman Deetz, and a two-person exhibition with Harry Gould Harvey IV and Faith Wilding. Previously the Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania from 2008-2019, she organized over thirty exhibitions while at ICA, including Ree Morton’s first major retrospective in the United States in over three decades (2018).