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Associate Curator & Head, Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design

Modern and contemporary drawings, prints and photographs, history of graphic design, architecture.

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Background And Education

Public Biography

  • Caitlin Condell is the associate curator and head of the Department of Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, where she oversees a collection of nearly 147,000 works on paper dating from the 14th century to the present. She has organized and contributed to numerous exhibitions and publications including Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer (2021–2022), After Icebergs (2019–2020), Nature – Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial (2019–2020), Fragile Beasts (2016–2017), and How Posters Work (2015) at Cooper Hewitt, and Making Room: The Space Between Two and Three Dimensions (2012–2013) at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). She worked previously at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in the department of Prints & Illustrated Books.

Publications

Selected Publications

Editor Of

  • Book

    • Condell, Caitlin and Orr, Emily M., editors. 2020. E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Rizzoli Electa. 2020
    • Condell, Caitlin and Magali, Berthon. 2016. Fragile Beasts Coloring Book, Condell, Caitlin, editor. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 2016

Presentations

  • Exhibit

    • Condell, Caitlin (Curator). 2016. "Fragile Beasts." New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2016-06-10 to 2017-01-16..
    • Condell, Caitlin (Curator). 2014. "Maira Kalman Selects." New York, NY: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2014-12-12 to 2015-06-07..
    • Condell, Caitlin (Curator). 2019. "Nature by Design: After Icebergs." New York, New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2019-11-15 to 2020-04-27..
    • Condell, Caitlin, Lipps, Andrea, and McQuaid, Matilda (Curators). 2019. "Nature-Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial." New York, New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2019-05-10 to 2020-01-20..
    • Condell, Caitlin (Curator). 2021. "The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers." New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2021-06-10 to 2022-01-02..
    • Condell, Caitlin and Orr, Emily M (Curators). 2021. "Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer." New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2021-09-10 to 2022-04-10..
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