Katy Siegel is Research Director at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and Distinguished Professor and Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art at Stony Brook University. Exhibitions she has curated or co-curated include Joan Mitchell (2021), Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art (2019), Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017 (2018), Mark Bradford’s presentation at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965 (2016), Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler (2015), and High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975 (2006–8). She edited the 2018 volume Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed, 1961–2015 and has published widely on modern and contemporary artists, including Lee Krasner, Sharon Lockhart, Carrie Moyer, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Toshiko Takaezu, and Charline von Heyl.
Making Their Mark:
Art by Women in the
Shah Garg Collection
Edited by Mark Godfrey and Katy Siegel, this book explores the bold vision and vast range of achievements of 136 women artists drawn from the Shah Garg Collection.