Bana Kattan is a researcher and curator with experience working in the Arab world and United States. She is currently the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). Prior to her time at the MCA, she was the Curator at the New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, and Researcher to Arab Art Historian Salwa Mikdadi. She received her MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and is a recipient of the Barjeel Global Fellowship (2018-2019) and the Getty-CAA International Program Grants (2015).