Nora Burnett Abrams

Associate Curator

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

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Nora Burnett Abrams is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver. For MCA has organized solo exhibitions on Adrian Ghenie, Dana Schutz, Tatiana Blass, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Dario Robleto, Allison Smith, Frohawk Two Feathers and others. Recently, she co-curated the group exhibition Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, which traveled to The Power Plant, Toronto, and to the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. She is currently working on a large group exhibition exploring domesticity in contemporary art. She graduated from Stanford University, holds a Master's from Columbia University and is completing her dissertation at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. 

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