Trotman, Nat (Personal Name)

North Carolina Artists Exhibition 1999, c1999: t.p. (Nat Trotman)

Guggenheim Museum, via WWW, October 24, 2016 (Nat Trotman, Curator, Performance and Media, Guggenheim Museum; Nat Trotman first joined the curatorial staff in 2001 as curatorial assistant for the exhibition Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle; in the years since he has organized numerous exhibitions for the museum, including James Turrell in New York, Pawel Althamer: Almech in Berlin, Found in Translation in New York and Berlin, Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance in New York and Bilbao, and a pair of yearlong presentations of installation art in Bilbao; he has developed performative and site-specific projects for the Guggenheim rotunda in collaboration with artists such as Sharon Hayes, Meredith Monk, Susan Philipsz, Tino Sehgal, James Turrell, and Francesco Vezzoli; he also works with Jennifer Blessing in developing the Guggenheim's collection of photography, video, and film, and is closely involved in the museum's performance programming; besides catalogue essays for several of the above exhibitions, Trotman has published on Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys, Jane and Louise Wilson, and others; he also co-organized The Shapes of Space with Ted Mann and Kevin Lotery, and served as assistant curator for Catherine Opie: American Photographer and Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America, and as curatorial assistant for Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History; David Smith: A Centennial; Richard Serra: The Matter of Time; and Constantin Brancusi: The Essence of Things; Trotman holds an M.Phil. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he focused on performance, photography, and time-based art, and is a graduate of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program)