Katie Larson is the Director of Traveling Exhibition Services at IA&A, where she leads a team in the curation, loan, and installation of exhibitions in partnership with national and international museums and cultural institutions. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. Katie previously served as an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Department of Art and Art History at Baylor University. Prior to joining the faculty at Baylor, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
She has worked in museums across the Washington region, including at the Phillips Collection, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and MoCA Arlington. Her scholarship has been supported by numerous fellowships and grants. From 2021–22, she served as the Scholar-in-Residence at Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York. In 2016–17, she was named a PhD Scholar by Gerda Henkel Stiftung, and in 2015–16 was awarded a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Katie has presented her research at the MFA Boston, the College Art Association Annual Conference, Magazzino Italian Art, the American Academy in Rome, and the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica. Her writing has been published in Art Journal, Oxford Art Journal, Print Quarterly, Art Inquiries, ASAP/J and CAA reviews. Her book, entitled Material Redemption: Alberto Burri and the Politics of Painting in Postwar Italy, is currently under review at a university press.