Katherine Markoski

Katherine Markoski’s teaching, research, and curatorial work focuses on modern and contemporary art, with emphases on American art, time-based art, and the intersections of art and politics. She received a PhD in the History of Art from Johns Hopkins University and has held positions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Washington College, where she was Director of Kohl Gallery and a Lecturer in Art History. In addition to teaching courses on modern and contemporary art at numerous other universities, she has published essays and reviews on topics including American modernism, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Corita Kent, and the Judson Dance Theater as well as contributions to Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 (Princeton University Press, 2019), Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection (Prestel, 2019), and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (DelMonico, 2022). In 2022, she co-curated America: Between Dreams and Realities, Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and also co-authored the accompanying catalogue (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2022). A forthcoming contribution to a textbook on Southern art addresses Black Mountain College and particularly the school’s relationship to its southern grounding. From 2023 through 2024, Markoski worked as an American Women’s History Initiative Writer and Editor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, publishing web biographies of women artists in the collection. She is also Field Editor for Exhibitions, Southeast for caareviews.org and regularly reviews exhibitions in the DMV for East City Art.