Katherine Slusher is a writer and curator based in Barcelona, Spain. She has a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and a PhD in Art History from the University of Barcelona.

Among her texts on photography are the publications David Goldblatt speaks with Katherine Slusher, Conversations with Photographers (La Fábrica, Madrid) and MemyselfandI: Photo Portraits of Picasso (contributing author, Museum Ludwig, Cologne). Slusher is the author of a dual biography entitled Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desire (Prestel, London). 

Slusher is an expert on Man Ray’s graphic work, the topic of her doctoral dissertation.  She wrote the introductory text to the Man Ray: Printmaker exhibition at Francis Naumann Fine Art (New York City and Basel Art Fair/Miami).

Slusher was selected as one of six international curators to contribute to Thy Brothers’ Keeper, a photojournalism exhibition organized by The Alternative Museum, New York City, that traveled in the United States and Germany. Her exhibition Lee Miller: Picasso in Private, and its accompanying catalogue, were produced by the Picasso Museum.  The exhibition received over one hundred thousand visitors. 

Other curated exhibitions include Looking Sideways: Roland Penrose and Surrealism, with paintings by Man Ray and Roland Penrose, at the Tenirife Espacio de las Artes in Tenerife.  She curated a large retrospective exhibition, Vilallonga: Drawings, Symbols and Signs, for La Casa de la Paraula in Santa Coloma de Farners, Spain.

Slusher’s invited speaking engagements include the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, course seminars at the National Museum of Catalonia, and guest lectures at the University of Barcelona.