Katie O’Hara joined the Buffalo AKG staff in 2025. Previously, O’Hara was a Curatorial Assistant, and then Curatorial Associate at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) from 2019 to 2024 where she contributed to exhibitions including, Hidden Histories and Love Languages (2023–2025). In Houston, she curated Here, Now, and In the Multiverse (2024), and co-organized the MFAH installation of Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West (2024) and Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage (2024). She also curated time-based media installations including Clarissa Tossin: White Marble Everyday (2022) and Drew Bacon: Stutter and Spill (2021).

Prior to her time in Houston, O’Hara held curatorial and research roles at the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, The National Portrait Gallery, and the Smith College Museum of Art. She holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University, a bachelor’s degree from Smith College, and has completed additional professional training at Oxford University and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

O’Hara’s curatorial approach combines scholarship with a passion for connecting audiences to art’s transformative potential. Her research interests include time-based media art, contemporary portraiture, and the Provincetown art colony.