Catherine Taft is a curator and writer based in New York and Los Angeles.  She served as assistant curator on the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition "America is Hard to See" (2015), and as curatorial associate and project specialist on the J. Paul Getty Museum's exhibitions “Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970” (2011) and “California Video” (2008). A regular contributor to monographs and magazines including Artforum, Art Review, Kaleidoscope, and Modern Painters, Taft is currently working on her first novel, forthcoming from Badlands Unlimited.