Katherine Slusher
Katherine Slusher is an art curator and writer based in Barcelona, Spain. She is the author of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desire (Prestel, 2007). She curated the painting exhibition Looking Sideways: Roland Penrose and Surrealism which has travelled to the new Tenerife Espacio de las Artes in the Canary Islands through May, 2009. Her photography exhibition Picasso & Lee Miller: Evocación y Recuerdo opened at the Museo Casa Natal in Málaga, Spain. In 2008, she lectured as part of a course in conjunction with the exhibition Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia at the National Museum of Catalonia in collaboration with the University of Barcelona. She has been invited back again in July, 2009, as part of the lecture series around the photography exhibitions Robert Capa and Gerda Taro.
She has spoken on different topics related to curatorial issues at universities in the United States. Her exhibition Lee Miller: Picasso in Private, at the Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain in 2007 received over 108,000 visitors and was covered extensively in local and international media. In December, 2007, she presented a paper at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in which three of Miller's recurring pictorial strategies were discussed.
Slusher was selected as one of six international curators to contribute to the photojournalism exhibition, Thy Brothers' Keeper, organised by The Alternative Museum, New York City, which opened at the Flint Institute of Arts in 2006, travelled to the Boca Raton Museum in 2007 and is currently on exhibit in Germany.
Other recent exhibitions she has curated include: Vilallonga: Poetic Symbolism from Barcelona , Los Angeles; Alex Harris: Islands in Time , Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Spain; Pa d'angel , Barcelona, Athens, and New York; Cors i Camins, Ethnological Museum, Barcelona; and Imaginary Library , Barcelona, Rennes, and Athens.
Katherine Slusher has also directed visual arts programs for private American universities. She holds a Masters Degree in Museum Studies from Syracuse University, New York and is working on her PhD at the University of Barcelona.