Kelly Baum received a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2005. From 2002 to 2007, she was the assistant curator of contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, and from 2008 to mid 2010, she was the Locks Curatorial Fellow for Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. She has organized several exhibitions, including Carol Bove (2006); Jedediah Caesar (2007), The Sirens' Song (2007), Transactions (2007), Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010 (2010), and Doug Aitken: migration (empire) (2010). Kelly has also published essays on subjects ranging from Ana Mendieta and Santiago Sierra to Michèle Bernstein and the Situationist International in such journals as October, Art Journal, and PUAM's Record. She is currently at work on the exhibition New Jersey as Non-Site, scheduled to open in 2013.