Elena Ketelsen González

Elena Ketelsen González is a curator, researcher, writer, and educator. She is currently Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1, where she has conceptualized and worked to organize activations of Homeroom, a space that amplifies the work of collectives, organizations, and artists that are connected to PS1’s program. Her curatorial collaborations and exhibitions at PS1 have included Sandra Poulson: Este cuarto parece uma república (2025), a solo presentation of Regina José Galindo’s Tierra (2024); Leslie Martinez: The Fault of Formation, (2023–2024); Malikah (2023) with Rana Abdelhamid; and Nuevayorkinos: Essential and Excluded (2021–2022) with the filmmaker and archivist Djali Brown-Cepeda. She has held programming and curatorial positions in New York at Gracie Mansion Conservancy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of the City of New York, among others. She was also the founder of La Salita, a grassroots curatorial project dedicated to organizing programs and exhibitions with artists from across Latin America and the Caribbean. Recent writing contributions include texts for Flow States– LA TRIENAL 2024 catalog at El Museo del Barrio, and an essay in TEOR/éTica’s La Buchaca: De nosotras para nosotras, 2024, edited by Maya Juracán. Born in San José, Costa Rica, and raised between there and Southern California, Elena currently resides in New York.