Nat Trotman is Curator, Performance and Media at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where he oversees the museum’s collection and presentation of time-based artworks, including performance, video, film, sound, and other media. Since joining the Guggenheim in 2001, he has organized and co-organized numerous exhibitions for the museum’s international network, including Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks (2021–22); In-Between Days: Video from the Guggenheim Collections (2021); Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin: . . . circle through New York (2017); Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better (2016); Blood Makes Noise (2014); James Turrell (2013); Pawel Althamer: Almech (2011–12); Found in Translation (2011–12); and Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance (2010). He has also developed performative and site-specific projects for the Guggenheim with such artists as Tarek Atoui, Kevin Beasley, Pia Camil, Gerard & Kelly, Sharon Hayes, Hassan Khan, Ragnar Kjartansson, Shaun Leonardo, Susan Philipsz, Lucy Raven, Tino Sehgal, and Tris Vonna-Michell.

Besides catalogue essays for many of the above exhibitions, Trotman has published on the work of Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys, Erica Baum, Brendan Fernandes, Alyson Shotz, Naama Tsabar, and others. He has also contributed to the expansion of the Guggenheim collection through his longstanding work with the museum’s Photography Council affinity group, which he co-leads with Jennifer Blessing. Additionally, Trotman has recently assumed a leading role in the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative. He holds an M.Phil. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is a graduate of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program.