Alhena Katsof was raised in Montréal, Canada and lives in New York City. She has organized exhibitions and performances including Towards the Unknown a traveling exhibition of drawings, scores, and graphic notations by the autophysiopsychic musician Yusef Lateef and Telepathic Improvisation , Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz’s first solo exhibition and film commission in the US, which was organized with Mason Leaver-Yap at the Walker Art Center then exhibited at PARTICIPANT INC. and Contemporary Arts Museum Hou
From 2011-2018 Alhena was the Director of Strategy and Protocol for Public Movement , a performative research body. The performances she created with Dana Yahalomi, Director of Public Movement, have been staged at many venues including the Santarcangelo Festival , Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art , and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum . Alhena has presented Public Movement lectures at, for example, Universität Zürich , Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , and SITAC XI in Mexico City. Katsof and
Alhena has written catalog essays about numerous artists including Polly Apfelbaum , Nicole Eisenman , and Gordon Hall . Her short-form writing has been published in C Magazine , Canadian Art , KALEIDOSCOPE and MAP Magazine . Alhena's writing about exhibitions has been published in volumes including The Artist As Curator: An Anthology ( Mousse Publishing ); How Institutions Think: Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse (MIT Press); and and As Radical, As Mother, As Salad, As Shelter: What Should