Anna Katz is Assistant Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she is organizing the first full-scale, scholarly survey of the Pattern and Decoration movement (1972-1985), opening Fall 2019 at MOCA Grand Avenue. She has recently organized the exhibitions Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions and, in collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute, Jackson Pollock’s Number 1, 1949: A Conservation Treatment. From 2015 to 2017 Katz was the Wendy Stark Curatorial Fellow at MOCA, during which time she organized Peter Shire: Naked Is the Best Disguise; assisted on the exhibitions Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010, Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, and Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road; and organized the museum’s public programs. Previously a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 2008 to 2013, she holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Katz has taught art history courses at Occidental College, Pomona College, Pratt Institute, and UCLA and has recently contributed to the catalogues Doug Aitken: Electric Earth (2016), Kerry James Marshall: Mastry (2016), and Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection (2015).