Catherine Ingrams is a specialist in modern and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on the trajectories of the European post-war avant-garde spread across transnational contexts. She received a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin, after which she qualified as a solicitor before taking a MA in History of Art from the Courtauld, and a Phd from UCL, supervised by Professor Briony Fer and titled ‘Resisting Forms, Forms of Resistance: Avant-garde Practice in Italy, 1947 – 1958’ (2022).
Beyond her current role as an Associate Lecturer for the BA3 Special Option ‘Modern, Postmodern and Digital Photography’ at the Courtauld, she has taught modern and contemporary art and visual culture at Northeastern University and at UCL where she has also worked as the Coordinator for the Centre of Contemporary Art and Culture (CSCA) as well as Project Coordinator for the Terra-funded project Not Now: Modernism, Nativism and Fascism in American Art & Culture (2023-2024). During her Phd, she was the recipient of the Hauser & Wirth Predoctoral Fellowship, an award that allowed her to research and write on a series of lost murals by the painter Arshile Gorky. Her recent article ‘Plurals and singulars: Couples and collectives at Albisola and elsewhere’ is published by in the forthcoming title Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy: Entangled Lives, edited by Teresa Kittler and Sharon Hecker, (Bloomsbury: London, 2025).
