Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man is an art historian and chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She previously served as curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture. With more than 20 years of curatorial experience in museums and galleries, she has curated national and international contemporary Native American art exhibitions. Well-Off-Man received her Ph.D. in art history from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and her M.A. degree in art history, archaeology and pedagogy from the University of Cologne, Germany. She has authored numerous exhibition catalogue essays, magazine articles and blogs on American art. Among her publications are the exhibition catalogs Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology (2021), Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future (2020), Action/Abstraction Redefined (2019), and Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art (2017), as well as an article in The Art Bulletin (Sept. 2022).
