Catherine Whitney
Director of Curatorial Affairs
Catherine Whitney has more than twenty years of curatorial and educational experience, including ten years as Chief Curator of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and time at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in the conservation, education, and curatorial divisions. She also helped build several museum and private collections as an American art dealer and Director at the Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, specializing in regionalism and modern art. Born and raised in Maine, Whitney earned a Graduate Degree in Art History from the University of Maryland after completing her Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art and Art History at Bowdoin College.
Since arriving at HoMA, Whitney co-conceived and transformed the museum’s outdoor courtyards with the help of her colleagues and local artists. She is overseeing the transformation of HoMA’s permanent collection galleries and injecting new energy and audience-based approaches into its ambitious and diverse exhibition program.
