Frauke V. Josenhans is Curator at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX, where she has curated several notable exhibitions, including Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us (2024); Laure Prouvost: Above Front Tears Nest in South (2023); Urban Impressions (2022); Artists and the Rothko Chapel (2021); and Brie Ruais: Movement at the Edge of the Land (2021). She is also deeply involved with acquisitions for the Rice Public Art Collection and has organized temporary installations with artists such as Karyn Olivier, Eva LeWitt, william cordova, Martha Tuttle, Kenneth Tam, and Danielle Dean.
Josenhans was previously a curator at the Yale University Art Gallery, and she held positions at cultural institutions in Europe and the US, notably at the Université François-Rabelais in Tours, France, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Josenhans has participated in several international research projects and she has edited, authored and contributed to English, French, and German art-historical journals, books, and catalogs with a special focus on exile studies, displacement, and female artists in global modern and contemporary art. Her books include Sheila Hicks: Radical Vertical Inquiries (2024), Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us (2024), Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration (2021), and the award-winning Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope (2017). She was the guest-editor of Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: The Société Anonyme at 100 (2022). Josenhans has graduate degrees in art history and museology from the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre in Paris, and holds a PhD from the Aix-Marseille Université, France.
