Caitlin Chaisson is a curator and art critic with a research focus on modern and contemporary Indigenous art. She was a part of the curatorial team that presented Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map (2023) at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation’s Curatorial Open Call and curated The House Edge at The 8th Floor, an exhibition that addressed the economic dimensions of sovereignty. She has also held positions at The Drawing Center (New York City), e-flux (New York City), Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver), and AKA Artist-Run Centre (Saskatoon). Her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, and frieze, among others. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and currently works as a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art.
In a sketchbook that dates to her early student years at Framingham State College (now Framingham State University) in the mid-1970s, the artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, 1940–2025) wrote, “[I] have a brainstorm . . . to do a series of paper dolls.”1Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, unpublished sketchbook, c.…
