VIRTUAL | Curatorial Perspective: For a Dreamer of Houses

Image: Misty Keasler, Green Room (Quarenteen) Leagnul di Copii, Tigru Mures, Romania, 2004. Courtesy Misty Keasler and The Public Trust Gallery.

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Join ArtTable for a presentation and virtual walk through of For a Dreamer of Houses, an imaginative and immersive exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, with Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, as part of ArtTable’s virtual curatorial perspective series. For a Dreamer of Houses explores the significance of the spaces we inhabit and how they represent ourselves, our values, and our desires- a curatorial theme that feels all too relevant as so many of us remain at home. 

About Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck

Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck is the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. She joined the DMA in January 2017 as the Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, as was promoted to Associate Curator in May 2018. Brodbeck has extensive knowledge of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on Latin American art, as well as a background in Islamic art. As the Hoffman Family Senior Curator, Brodbeck oversees exhibitions, programming, publications, and acquisitions related to the Museum’s leading collection of contemporary art. In collaboration with Dr. Agustín Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director, and other colleagues throughout the Museum, Brodbeck works to expand the scope of the department to reflect the DMA’s commitment to presenting an inclusive, globally-minded vision of the art historical canon.

Since joining the DMA in 2017, Brodbeck has curated several exhibitions across the breadth of contemporary art, including Jonas Wood (2019), the first major museum survey of works by the beloved Los Angeles-based painter. She also curated America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape (2019), a focused exhibition of works primarily from the DMA’s collection of contemporary art—including 15 new acquisitions she oversaw for the DMA—that take the American landscape as a point of departure.

Brodbeck also served as installation curator for the Dallas presentations of Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty (2018), the most comprehensive survey of Förg’s work to date, and Laura Owens (2018), the critically acclaimed mid-career survey of the American artist. She also curated the immensely popular presentation of Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2017) and co-curated Truth: 24 frames per second, the DMA’s first exhibition dedicated to time-based media. Additionally, she has organized the DMA’s exhibition series Concentrations, which spotlights emerging international artists. 

Prior to arriving at the DMA, Brodbeck worked in curatorial departments at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She co-curated the first comprehensive US retrospective of the influential Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica in Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium (2016), co-organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She also delivered extensive exhibition research for Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition (The Frick Collection, 2011) and Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years (The Museum of Modern Art, 2007).  

Brodbeck has been supported by a number of fellowships, and she has delivered scholarly papers and contributed to numerous publications in her field. She has also served as an adjunct instructor of art history at New York University and Hunter College, and is a member of the College Art Association and Latin American Studies Association.  

Dr. Brodbeck earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a magna cum laude graduate of New York University and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Thank you to Sarah McNaughton, NY Programs Committee, for organizing this event.