Ingrid Schaffner

Ingrid Schaffner (born 1961) is a curator, writer, and educator specializing in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. Schaffner work often coalesces around themes of archiving and collecting, photography, feminism, and alternate modernisms—especially Surrealism.
Schaffner co-authored the publication "Deep Storage" which was a major international survey of 50 contemporary artists representing issues and images of collecting, storage, and archiving. Other exhibitions include "Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, More ..." on collecting, "Richard Tuttle, In Parts, 1998-2001," and "The Photogenic: Photography Through its Metaphor." She has numerous publications on 20th-century art, art reviews in "Artforum", and catalog essays.
Schaffner is currently Curator at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Prior she was the curator of 2018 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania from 2000-2015.