Katie Hood Morgan is a Non-profit arts leader with 12+ years of curatorial and administrative experience in a variety of mission-driven institutions. She is Deeply committed to arts advocacy and equity and guided by the core belief that supporting creative practice leads to possibilities for a transformed future.
She is currently serving as Interim Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries. Recent projects include a long-term permanent collection exhibition with the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz and a guest-curated exhibition for The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art. Prior positions include: Program Director of FOR-SITE Foundation, Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute, and Assistant Curator at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, all in San Francisco, CA. She has organized major exhibitions and public programs with artists and collectives including Ai Weiwei, Patti Smith, Jill Magid, Postcommodity, and Bill Fontana.
Katie recently oversaw the critically-acclaimed touring exhibitions Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision (for SFAI and the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco), the first-ever major museum retrospective for a Filipino-American artist, and the 26-artist exhibition Dust Specks on the Sea: Sculpture from the French Caribbean and Haiti (for Hunter College and multiple international venues).
Katie worked at San Francisco Art Institute in various curatorial roles over the period of a decade, including that of Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs. She served as Assistant Curator at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts where she organized the 82-artist group exhibition When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes (2012). She was Program Director of FOR-SITE Foundation from 2019-2021 and Director and Curator of the artist-run Adobe Books Backroom Gallery in San Francisco from 2009-2012. She has organized major exhibitions and public programs with artists and collectives including Ai Weiwei, Patti Smith, Jill Magid, Alicia McCarthy, Postcommodity, and Bill Fontana, among many others.
She has contributed curatorial projects and programming at institutions and organizations including the Oakland Museum of California; the de Young Museum; California College of the Arts; SFMOMA; and MASS MoCA. She has participated in presentations, juries, and studio critiques with Creative Capital, NARS Foundation, Hunter College, the Wassaic Project, School of Visual Arts, New York, and ACRE Residency, Wisconsin.
Katie earned her BFA in History of Art and Visual Culture at University of California-Santa Cruz, and her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. She is a founding board member of the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive and she sits on the Advisory Board for Cycladic Arts, an artist-run gallery and residency in Paros, Greece.