Catherine Taft

Catherine Taft is a critic and curator based in Los Angeles. Her essays on contemporary art and culture appear regularly in publications such as Artforum, Modern Painters, ArtReview, Metropolis-M, Kaleidoscope, and in exhibition catalogs in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to her writing, Taft is Curatorial Associate in the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art the Getty Research Institute, where she helped organize the 2008 exhibition, California Video. Among other projects, she is currently working on the exhibition and research initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980, a collaboration of more than 50 cultural institutions across Southern California, which will open in October 2011.