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Kari Rittenbach is a critic and curator based in New York. Her writing has appeared in Afterall, Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Downtown Critic, Paper Monument, May Revue, Mousse, Texte zur Kunst, as well as artist books and museum catalogues. She has organized numerous projects independently, including You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show, Ortuzar Projects, New York (2021); Silvia Kolbowski: That Monster, An Allegory, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2019); Coming Soon (with Mira Asriningtyas and Nora Heidorn), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2018); and Trees in the Forest, Yale Union, Portland, Oregon (2016). Rittenbach is currently an Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1, where she has organized the exhibitions Julien Ceccaldi: Adult Theater (2025), Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon (with Connie Butler and Thomas Lax, 2024), Reynaldo Rivera: Fistful of Love / También la belleza (with Lauren Mackler, 2024) and Onyeka Igwe: A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver) (2023), as well as commissions by Jeffrey Joyal, Stewart Uoo, Raque Ford, Alex Tatarsky, and Poncili Creación. At PS1, she curates the music series Warm Up and worked on the mid-career survey Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE (2023). She is a visiting critic at the Yale School of Art.