Ruba Katrib
Ruba Katrib is an American curator. She has been Curator at MoMA PS1 since 2017. Early life. Ruba Katrib was born in Baltimore and grew up in Charleston, West Virginia. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Syria. In 2004, Katrib received her BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While an undergraduate, Katrib co-founded ThreeWalls, a non-profit artist residency program in Chicago. During this time, Katrib also held a work/study job at the Renaissance Society. Katrib graduated from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard  College in 2007. Career. Katrib worked as associate curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, where she organized survey solo exhibitions for Cory Arcangel and Claire Fontaine. In 2012, Katrib was named curator of New York's SculptureCenter where she curated solo shows of Nicola L., Cosima von Bonin, Anthea Hamilton, as well as group shows. Katrib was appointed curator of MoMA PS1 in 2017, where she has organized retrospectives for Simone Fattal and Niki de Saint Phalle, and a group exhibition about the Gulf Wars. In 2018, Katrib curated prominent group invitational exhibitions SITE Santa Fe  and the Carnegie International. In 2021, Katrib curated MoMA PS1's "Greater New York" invitational group exhibition of artists based in New York. Honors. Katrib was awarded a curatorial fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation in 2010, to support her research on artist-run education platforms in Latin America.