Elena Ketelsen González

Elena Ketelsen González is an Assistant Curator at PS1. Elena previously served as a bilingual educator in the New York City Department of Education, while also working as a community organizer in East Harlem and Washington Heights. Since then, she has worked at many cultural institutions in NYC, including the Whitney Museum and the Museum of the City of New York where she created culturally responsive curricula and programming for an intergenerational and multilingual audience. Most recently she served as Curatorial Assistant and Program Manager for the Gracie Mansion exhibit Catalyst: Art and Social Justice; Works by New York Artists and Activists since 1960. While at PS1, she has worked to establish collaborative community partnerships and organize activations of Homeroom, a space that amplifies and celebrates the work of collectives, organizations, artists, and activists that are connected to PS1’s public programming and community allyship initiatives. She is the founder of La Salita, a curatorial project and long-term investigation highlighting the work of emerging and established artists working across Latin America, and Latinx and immigrant artists working within the US. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy of Aesthetics from Colorado College, and an M.S.Ed in Bilingual Education from CUNY Hunter College.