Patricia Restrepo

Patricia Restrepo is Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), where she has worked since 2014. Her curatorial practice approaches exhibitions as research laboratories, with a focus on artist commissions, archival inquiry, and interdisciplinary dialogue. Recent projects include the co-curated survey Vincent Valdez: Just A Dream… (2024–25); Olivia Erlanger’s site-specific installation If Today Were Tomorrow (2024), accompanied by a publication from Hatje Cantz featuring new texts by Lydia Kallipoliti, Chris Kraus, and Mark von Schlegell; and Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City through Mutated Lenses (2020–21), a transhistorical exhibition examining DJ Screw’s legacy through artists including Jamal Cyrus, Shana Hoehn, and Sondra Perry. She also curated Will Boone’s first solo museum exhibition, The Highway Hex (2019–20), and Stage Environment: You Didn’t Have to Be There (2018), an exhibition tracing CAMH’s history of championing performance by artists including Laurie Anderson, James Lee Byars, Joan Jonas, Autumn Knight, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Her exhibitions and projects have been featured in publications including Artforum, Flash Art, The Guardian, The New York Times, W Magazine, and Wallpaper*. Restrepo has overseen CAMH's artist-centered publications and led initiatives to digitize the museum’s archival materials and publications to expand public access. Prior to joining CAMH, she worked with international arts institutions and publications, including the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticasat Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Restrepo is currently a PhD student in Art History at Rice University and a holds Master’s degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Bachelor’s degrees from Rice University.