Katherine Slusher

Katherine Slusher is a writer, curator, professor, and researcher based in Barcelona, Spain. She has a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and a PhD in Art History from the University of Barcelona. Recent projects include a childrens' book published in Catalán in 2015, the text for Man Ray: Printmaker exhibition at Francis Naumann Fine Art (New York City and Basel Art Fair - Miami, 2013), the publication David Goldblatt speaks with Katherine Slusher: Conversations with Photographers (La Fábrica, Madrid, 2011) and contributing author, MemyselfandI. Photo Portraits of Picasso, (Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2011). Slusher is also the author of the duography Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desire (Prestel, 2007). In 2015, she curated a recent drawings exhibition as well as the retropective exhibition Vilallonga: Drawings, Symbols and Signs for La Casa de la Paraula. Slusher curated the exhibition Looking Sideways: Roland Penrose and Surrealism, with works by Penrose and Man Ray at the TEA Tenerife in 2009. Her exhibition, Lee Miller: Picasso in Private, and its accompanying catalogue, were produced by the Picasso Museum in Barcelona in 2007, receiving over one hundred thousand visitors. Among her speaking engagements, Slusher lectured at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London as part of an exhibition program and has participated in seminars at the National Museum of Catalonia; lecturing on Man Ray and Lee Miller for the Tate Britain exhibition Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia (2008) and on "Women Combat Photographers" for the Gerda Taro and This is War! Robert Capa at Work exhibitions (2009) from the International Center of Photography. She teaches and organizes art history courses at the University of Barcelona for Els Juliols in English, Spanish, and Catalan.