New York, NY
she/her
Elena Ketelsen González is a curator, researcher, writer, and educator. Elena is currently an Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1, where she has conceptualized and worked to organize activations of Homeroom, a space that amplifies the work of collectives, organizations, and artists that are connected to PS1’s program. Her curatorial collaborations and exhibitions at PS1 have included a solo presentation of Regina José Galindo’s Tierra (2024); The Fault of Formation, the first New York City solo exhibition of Leslie Martinez (2023–2024); Malikah (2023) with Rana Abdelhamid; Nuevayorkinos: Essential and Excluded (2021–2022) with the filmmaker and archivist Djali Brown-Cepeda; and Black Trans Liberation: Memoriam and Deliverance (2021) with Qween Jean. She has held programming and curatorial positions in New York at Gracie Mansion Conservancy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of the City of New York, among others. She is also the founder of La Salita, a grassroots curatorial project dedicated to organizing programs and exhibitions with artists from across Latin America and the Caribbean. Recent writing contributions include texts on Puppies Puppies and Kay Walkingstick in the 60th Venice Biennale exhibition and catalogue, Stranieri Ovunque/Foreigners Everywhere (2024), curated by Adriano Pedrosa. She holds an MSEd in Bilingual Education from CUNY Hunter College and a BA in Philosophy from Colorado College. Born in San José, Costa Rica, and raised between there and Southern California, Elena currently resides in New York.
