Ruth Erickson

Ruth Erickson is the Mannion Family Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, where she has curated more than a dozen exhibitions, including solo projects with the artists Kevin Beasley, Mark Dion, Wangechi Mutu, Tschabalala Self, and Vivian Suter, as well as traveling group exhibitions on Black Mountain College. She has edited and contributed to multiple exhibition catalogues, including Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957, and has presented and published her work widely. She received an MA and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2022 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow.