Katerina Atanassova (born 1965) has been the Senior Curator of Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada since 2014.
At the National Gallery of Canada, she is responsible for developing the national collections of Canadian painting, sculpture, prints and drawings, and decorative arts, dating up to 1980, and she has re-installed the permanent collection of Canadian art as well as curating exhibitions.
[4] In 2009, she was hired at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario as director of exhibitions and chief curator.
Prakash collection in trust to the nation (2017) and Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons: 1880-1930 (2019) which travelled to the Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany; the Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland; and the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France before arriving in Ottawa in the National Gallery of Canada in 2022, where it received acclaim from television channels such as Ottawa – CTV News as "a beautiful chance to escape to beauty".
Prakash collection in trust to the nation (2017); and Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons (2020) praised as "not just a coffee table book but also a major contribution to the history of World Impressionism" by the Canadian Art Review RACAR.