Kathy Rae Huffman

Kathy Rae Huffman is an independent curator, based in Berlin. She was Visual Arts Director at Cornerhouse, Manchester (2002-2008) where her curatorial work included: Art TV (for The Getty Museum), What do you want? (for the Asian Triennial Manchester 08) and Broadcast Yourself (with Sarah Cook for the AV Festival Newcastle) in 2008; Outside the Box and Central Asian Project (with Julia Sorokina and Anna Harding) in 2007; Nick Crowe: Commemorative Glass in 2006; Marcel Odenbach: The Idea of Africa and Eva Wohlgemuth’s Bodyscan: Instandstillness in 2005; Zineb Sedira: Telling stories with differences (2004); and Grace Weir: A Fine Line (2003).

Huffman received an MFA in Exhibition Design from California State University Long Beach, where she also completed the graduate course in Museum Studies. She has held curatorial posts at the Long Beach Museum of Art (1979-1984) and The ICA Boston (1984-1990). She was professor of electronic art and director of EMAC at RPI, Troy, NY 1998-2000.

Huffman has commissioned artists, written about, consulted for, and coordinated events for a variety of international festivals and organisations since the 1980s. Her research focuses around issues of female environments in the Internet, and the history of video, and artists’ television. She co-founded FACES, an international online community for women media artists (with Diana McCarty and Valie Djordjevic) in 1997.