Tracey Bashkoff

Tracey Bashkoff joined the Guggenheim in 1993 and has contributed to numerous special exhibitions covering a range of 20th-century subjects. She has organized collection-based exhibitions for the museum since 1997 including Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim (2012), and The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910–1918 (2011). In 2008–9, she co-organized the international retrospective Kandinsky, which traveled to Lenbachhaus, Munich, and Centre Pompidou, Paris, before being presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Her most recent exhibitions include Harmony & Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-30 (2024-25), Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (2018-19), and Agnes Martin (2016-17). For the Deutsche Guggenheim, she organized the commissions and presentations of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto and John Baldessari, as well as the exhibitions On the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, and James Turrell and Chillida/Tàpies: Matter and Visual Thought. Bashkoff has managed presentations of the Guggenheim Foundation’s permanent holdings at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao since its inauguration, including Louise Bourgeois; Process and Materiality in Art at the Mid-Twentieth Century; Kandinsky in Context; American Color Field Painting; and Passages: Beuys, Darboven, Kiefer, Richter. Bashkoff completed her graduate studies at Northwestern University where she received a Mellon Fellowship in Art Objects. In 2014, she was a fellow for the Center for Curatorial Leadership.