Curriculum Vitae
Education
2019–2021 Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2014–2016 Master of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2011–2012 Fine Art Foundation Certification, University of Brighton, Brighton, England
2006–2010 Bachelor of Commerce with Minor in Art History and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Selected Curatorial Experience
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Curatorial Assistant, working in the Department of Painting and Sculpture (August 2023–present)
The 8th Floor Gallery, New York City, NY
Curator, The House Edge (September 28, 2023–January 13, 2024)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Curatorial Project Assistant, working with Laura Phipps on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map (April 19, 2023–August 20, 2023)
The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
Curatorial Research Fellow, working with Rosario Güiraldes on Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart, and Drawing in the Continuous Present (both March 10–May 22, 2022)
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Curator (Graduate Student) of the exhibition While the Underground Flickers (April 3, 2021–May 30, 2022)
e-flux, New York City, New York City, NY
Curatorial Assistant for the e-flux video and film platform, providing support to that Artist Cinema series, including the programs War and Cinema (June 17–July 29, 2020) curated by Oleksiy Radynski; Take Me Back (August 19–October 3, 2020) curated by Jumana Manna; and Ecology After Nature: Industries, Communities, and Environmental Memory (August 14–November 7, 2020) curated by Lukas Brasiskis
Far Afield, Multiple Locations, BC
Director and Curator of the exhibitions Under the Beating Sun, from Summer to Summer (June 1–August 3, 2019) at Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Touchstones: Deep Time in the Near Future (September 1–30, 2018) presented in collaboration with the Kent Harrison Arts Council, Ranger Station Art Gallery, and Agassiz Fall Fair and Corn Festival; Inside the Day was Night (August 18–21, 2017) on Salt Spring Island, BC; and Disturbances in the Field (May 12–27, 2017) at Omineca Arts Centre, Prince George, BC.
Selected Publications
Chaisson, Caitlin. “Activist Alibis.” frieze magazine, no. 233 (March, 2023): 30.
———. “Rose B. Simpson.” frieze magazine, no. 231 (November, 2022): 150.
———. “Coming Home.” frieze magazine, no. 225 (March, 2022): 27.
———. “Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Museum of Modern Art.” frieze magazine, no. 221 (September, 2021): 163.
———. “Three Watershed Moments: Uranium Mining and Contemporary Media Along Serpent River.” MA Thesis, Bard College, 2021.
Chaisson, Caitlin and Genevieve Robertson. “And Even Dust Can Burst Into Flames.” Ecocene, vol. 1, no. 2 (2020): 150-158.
Chaisson, Caitlin. “No Laughing Matter.” C Magazine, no. 146 (2020): 16-17.
———. “Anne Low: Chair for a woman.” C Magazine, no. 142 (2019): 59-60.
———. “Ann Beam and Carl Beam.” Canadian Art, April 3, 2019. https://canadianart.ca/reviews/ann-beam-and-carl-beam.
———. “Could the Picture Steel Words.” Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, vol. 3, no. 2 (2018): 249-262.
———. “Open Engagement: Sustainability.” C Magazine, no. 139 (2018): 66-67.
———. “Interview with Holly Schmidt: Looking Up, Looking Down.” Espace Magazine, no. 119 (2018): 52-57.
———. ”Black Gold: The Esoteric and the Ecological." Espace Magazine, no. 110 (2015): 22-30.