Marina Caron

Adjunct Instructor

Marina Caron is a curator and writer based in New York. Her work includes exhibition-making with contemporary artists, as well as a research-based practice focused on informal and idiosyncratic collections. Marina is currently the 12th SITE SANTA FE International Assistant Curator. Titled Once Within a Time, the exhibition opens in June, 2025 and is curated by Cecilia Alemani. 

Recent projects include Start Making Sense (2024) at the Hessel Museum, co-curated with Ann Butler (Director of Library and Archives, CCS Bard) and Tom Eccles (Executive Director, CCS Bard). With a focus on New York City in the 1990s and early 2000s, the exhibition explored social relationships between artworks from the Hessel Collection and material from the CCS Bard Special Collections and Archives, featuring work by over 60 artists and more than 50 documents and rare books. In 2023, Marina curated the first institutional solo exhibition of artist Bettina Grossman (1927-2021)—Bettina: The Fifth Point of the Compass—at the Hessel Museum, focusing on the artist’s projects on New York City, relationship to conceptual art, and work with fourth-dimensional geometry. She curated the 2023 MFA thesis exhibition, Stage Presence, at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.

Marina has assisted on major institutional solo exhibitions of artists Carrie Mae Weems (Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson (2024); Luma Arles (2023)), Yto Barrada (Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021-2022); MATHAF, Doha (2020); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York (2019)), and Jamian Juliano-Villani (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2015), among others.

Marina received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

Installation view from Bettina: The Fifth Point of the Compass, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April1 – May 28, 2023. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Marina Caron. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2023. Courtesy of the Estate of Bettina Grossman and Ulrik, New York.

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