Marina Caron is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. Her work explores relationships between systems aesthetics, informal collections, and concepts of vision. As part of her graduate studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Marina developed the first institutional solo exhibition of artist Bettina Grossman (1927-2021)—Bettina: The Fifth Point of the Compass—at the Hessel Museum in 2023, focusing on the artist’s projects on New York City, relationship to conceptual art, and work with fourth-dimensional geometry.
Marina is currently working as the 12th SITE SANTA FE International Assistant Curator. Titled Once Within a Time, the exhibition opens in June, 2025 and is curated by Cecilia Alemani.
Marina co-curated Start Making Sense (2024) at the Hessel Museum alongside Ann Butler (Director of Library and Archives, CCS Bard) and Tom Eccles (Executive Director, CCS Bard). With a focus on New York City in the 1990s and early 2000s, the exhibition explored social relationships between artworks from the Hessel Collection and material from the CCS Bard Special Collections and Archives, featuring work by over 60 artists and more than 50 documents and rare books. She was the Thesis Exhibition Coordinator for the 2023 MFA thesis exhibition, Stage Presence, at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. Since 2018, she has regularly worked in Tbilisi, Georgia, and was the Summer 2021 research resident with Propaganda Network, Tbilisi. She has assisted on major institutional solo exhibitions of artists Carrie Mae Weems (Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson (2024); Luma Arles (2023)), Yto Barrada (Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021-2022); MATHAF, Doha (2020); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York (2019)), and Jamian Juliano-Villani (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2015), among others.
Marina holds a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Photo: Sarah Miller
