Caitlin Chaisson is curator and critic based in New York, and holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College. She is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Chaisson recently worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map (2023), and at The Drawing Center on Drawing in the Continuous Present (2022) and Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart (2022). In 2023, she was the recipient of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation’s Curatorial Open Call and curated The House Edge at The 8th Floor. Previously, she served as the Director and Curator of Far Afield (2016–19), an initiative that supports regionally-connected artistic and curatorial practices. She has also held positions at e-flux (New York City), Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver), and AKA Artist-Run Centre (Saskatoon). Her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, and frieze magazine, among others.