Kate Kraczon is Director of Exhibitions of the Brown Arts Institute (BAI) and Chief Curator of the Bell Gallery at Brown University. She oversees the BAI’s exhibition program, which includes the Bell and its collection of over 7,000 works in List Art Center, the Cohen Gallery in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and Brown’s robust Public Art program. As a member of the BAI leadership team, Kraczon builds programs across campus and within the new Lindemann Performing Arts Center. She is also involved in many aspects of developing and lecturing within the BAI’s academic program. Since joining the BAI, Kraczon has curated solo exhibitions with artists Elisabeth Subrin, Savannah Knoop, Jules Gimbrone, and a two-person exhibition with Harry Gould Harvey IV and Faith Wilding. Previously the Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (2008-2019), she organized over thirty exhibitions while at ICA, including Ree Morton’s first major retrospective in the United States in over three decades (2018).
