Kathryn Floyd’s research focuses on the history of exhibitions with a special focus on the mediation of exhibitions in photography, film, exhibition catalogues, the press, and social media platforms.
Her current projects explore the concept, history, and iconography of “installation shots,” or photographs of exhibitions, from the nineteenth century to the present, including a series of photographs that document Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s expressionist sculpture Kneeling Woman (1911) at different modernist exhibitions in Germany and the US between 1912 and 1955. Other recent projects include guest editing a special issue of the journal Dada/Surrealism on the history of avant-garde art exhibitions and on-going research on the historiography of Dada studies in the United States and Germany.
Floyd teaches courses in modern and contemporary art, as well as in the history of the arts of Africa and the history of photography.
Research Interests
- history of exhibitions, 20th-century Germany, modern and contemporary art, history of photography, African art
