Elisa Auther is the Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.
[1] Auther was at the University of Colorado where she was an associate professor of contemporary art and director of the art history and museum studies program from 2003– 2014.
In 2014 she moved to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
In 2019 Auther was named deputy director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design.
[2] Auther co-curated with Bill Arning the retrospective of painter and photographer Marilyn Minter, "Pretty/Dirty" (2015–2016), which toured four cities and closed at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.