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Caitlin Ryan is Assistant Curator in the Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, where she has been on the curatorial teams for numerous exhibition projects, including Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum (2022); Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear (2022-3); An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers (2023-4); and LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity (2024). She recently organized Hyundai Card First Look: Martine Gutierrez (2024) and Looking for Langston (2024-ongoing) in the Museum’s permanent collections galleries. Caitlin first joined MoMA as a Mellon Research Consortium Fellow in 2020. Prior to that, she held curatorial positions at the Princeton University Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and teaching roles at Princeton University and Georgia State University. She earned her B.A. in Art History and Cultural Anthropology from Emory University and an M.A. in Art History from Princeton University, where she is preparing to defend a PhD dissertation centered on photography and antifascist politics in 1930s Paris. Her research has been supported by a Chateaubriand Fellowship in the Humanities, among other awards, and her writing has appeared across journals, exhibition catalogues, and online platforms.