Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas

Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas is a curator and writer based in New York City. Born and raised in New Mexico, her curatorial practice is rooted in a sustained inquiry into the notion of site. Working across indoor and outdoor spaces, she engages artists in site-responsive and collaborative processes that explore the social conditions of land, place, and identity.
Most recently, she served as Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY, and as Co-Curator of Desert X 2025 in the Coachella Valley, CA. At Socrates, she oversaw the exhibition program, curatorial initiatives, and the Socrates Annual Artist Fellowship, a longstanding program supporting early-career artists in the realization of ambitious public artworks along the New York City waterfront. Notable exhibitions at Socrates include Suchitra Mattai: We are nomads, we are dreamers (2024) and Mary Mattingly: Ebb of a Spring Tide (2023).

Previously, Garcia-Maestas was Acting Curator of Visual Arts at the Momentary, the contemporary satellite of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR, where she developed a robust exhibition program centered on site-specific and architectural interventions. During her tenure, she organized more than a dozen exhibitions and outdoor commissions by artists including Matthew Barney, Wendy Red Star, Xaviera Simmons, Nicholas Galanin, and Tavares Strachan, as well as major exhibitions such as Yvette Mayorga: What a Time to Be (2022), A Divided Landscape (2022, co-curated with Neville Wakefield), Diana Al-Hadid: Ash in the Trade Winds (2021), and In Some Form or Fashion (2021). From 2008 to 2018, she lived in Denver and held curatorial positions at the Denver Art Museum, MCA Denver, and the Biennial of the Americas, where she now serves on the board.