Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper

Adam Greenhalgh is associate curator at the National Gallery of Art. Since January 2015 he has led the team producing the catalogue raisonné of Mark Rothko’s works on paper. He is the curator of the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, which opened at the National Gallery, and the author of the companion book. Adam joined the National Gallery in 2012 as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of modern prints and drawings. He holds graduate degrees from Williams College and the University of Maryland, College Park, where he wrote a dissertation on risk in American visual culture around 1900.

Karianne Ommundsen is a Norwegian art historian. She started working at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in 2012 and is currently the Head of Public Programs and Education. Ommundsen has contributed to exhibitions on the early Kandinsky, Norwegian postwar architecture and abstract art, and recent acquisitions. In 2021, she collaborated on the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Together with Øystein Ustvedt, she organized the Oslo exhibition Mark Rothko. Paintings on Paper and authored the book Mark Rothko. A Rough Guide.

Christopher Rothko, the second of Mark and Mary Alice Rothko’s two children, is a psychologist, writer and for the last thirty years, the custodian of the Rothko legacy in partnership with his sister, Kate. He is editor of his father’s book of philosophical writings, The Artist’s Reality. His own book of essays, Mark Rothko from the Inside Out, was published in 2015 by Yale University Press. Dr. Rothko has helped prepare more than two dozen Rothko exhibitions around the globe and was co-curator of the monumental 2023 Rothko retrospective at the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris. He is Past Chair of the Rothko Chapel Board and currently head of the Opening Spaces Campaign.

Øystein Ustvedt is an art historian from University of Oslo. Since 2004, he has been a curator at the National Museum in Oslo specializing in 20th century art. He has curated numerous museum exhibitions including Passenger. The viewer as Participant (Oslo 2001), Hannah Ryggen. Weaving the World (Oslo/Malmo, 2015), and The Great Graphic Boom (Oslo/Stuttgart 2019), among others. Ustvedt has published two books: Ny Norsk kunst. Etter 1990 (Oslo, Fagbokforlaget, 2009) and Edvard Munch. An Inner Life (London, Thames & Hudson, 2020) and is currently working on _Else Hagen. Between people, _ a traveling exhibition on the Norwegian post-war artist Else Hagen, which will be on display at the National Museum.

Harry Cooper is curator of modern art at the National Gallery of Art. A native of Bethesda, Maryland, Cooper studied studio art at the Corcoran and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard with a dissertation on Piet Mondrian. He worked at the Harvard Art Museums for a decade before joining the National Gallery in 2008. He has organized or co-organized exhibitions on the work of Mondrian, Medardo Rosso, Frank Stella, Stuart Davis, Oliver Jackson, and Black "self-taught" artists of the South. His latest exhibition, a Philip Guston retrospective, will conclude its run at Tate Modern on February 25th.