Meet the Speakers
Katy Siegel
Art Historian
Katy Siegel is the Thaw Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University, SUNY. She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions including Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture (SMOMA, Crystal Bridges, Pérez Art Museum); Joan Mitchell (Baltimore Museum of Art, SMOMA, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris); Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day (US Pavilion, 2017 Venice Biennale); Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017 (Baltimore Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Houston MFA); Postwar: Art Between the Atlantic and the Pacific, 1945-1965 (Haus der Kunst, Munich); and High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967-1975. Among her books are Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed and, with Mark Godfrey, Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection. Siegel and Elise Armani are the co-authors of What Was America? Art, Culture, and Politics in 1976, forthcoming from Yale University Press.