Catharina Manchanda is the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum.
Originally from Germany, Catharina Manchanda received her Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York (2005), where she wrote her dissertation on conceptual art and photography in 1960-70s German art.
Recent shows include, City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle (2020), Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence (2020); Dawn Cerny: Les Choses (2021), Lauren Halsey (2022), Alberto Giacometti: Towards the Ultimate Figure (opens July 2022).
