Alumna Kate Green (Ph.D. in Art History, 2016) has been appointed the El Paso Museum of Art's (EPMA) Senior Curator, in a promotion made in October 2018. Green joined EPMA’s curatorial staff in January 2018.
Previous to EPMA, Green served as the Guest Director of Marfa Contemporary, Curator of Education and Exhibitions at Artpace, Curatorial Assistant at MOMA PS1 and Educator at Dia Art Foundation. Since her arrival at EPMA, Green has successfully helmed several large-scale projects and exhibitions as lead curator, including the 5th Transborder Biennial in May, La Fronteria: Art+People+Place and After Posada: Revolution.
The Transborder Biennial is a long-standing collaboration between the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ), with its fifth edition featuring paintings, sculptures, videos and sound works by thirty-two contemporary artists or collectives living along the US-Mexico border. The artwork explored issues related to the U.S.-Mexico border region, including immigration, crossing, and physical, linguistic, and cultural hybridity.
In a review of the biennial exhibition, "100 Ways to Draw a Line," Texas Observer writer Michael Agresta wrote:
The underdog energy of the show, which overlaps with the art-history notion of rasquache — or irreverent, cobbled-together art — is also powerful among the many artists in the show who hail from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. For these artists, the biennial is as close as the national and international art worlds come to visiting and possibly reckoning with their hometown scene. With about a third of its artists hailing from the area, the Transborder Biennial doubles as a survey of what’s happening in Texas’ most remote metropolis. The picture that emerges is that of a vibrant city flowering with young, sophisticated artists. Their work, on themes like migration and borders, is grounded in personal experience but at the same time relevant to the biggest political questions of the 21st century.
“As Senior Curator, Kate will continue to develop the vision and plan for exhibitions and the permanent collection while overseeing scholarly programming, and leading the talented curatorial staff,” said EPMA Director Dr. Victoria Ramirez.