Catinca Tabacaru is a Romanian-born art dealer and curator who founded Catinca Tabacaru Gallery in 2014 in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City.
Career
Catinca Tabacaru earned her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and her JD/LL.M in international law from Duke University School of Law. During her Duke Law years, she worked as a part of the legal counsel to the United Nations at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania. She also worked for the Guantanamo Defense Team in Washington, D.C. After two years as a litigation attorney at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in New York City, in 2010 she co-founded and served as the executive director of Women’s Voices Now. In 2012, she stepped down from Women's Voices Now to focus primarily on her art career, and opened her first gallery space in 2014. One year later she co-founded the CTG Collective, and subsequently CTG(R), a traveling art residency program affiliated with the gallery with its inaugural installment taking place in Zimbabwe. She curated her first institutional exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in 2015.