List of female art museum directors

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This is a list of notable female museum directors.

List of female art museum directors by name

A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q, R, S – T, U, V – W, X, Y, Z

1900–1919

Cornelia B. Sage (1876 or 1880–1936) (Albright-Knox Gallery)

Lulu F. Miller (1916-1930) (Muskegon Museum of Art, formerly known as the Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI)

1920s

Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox (Honolulu Museum of Art)

Katherine Innes (Montclair Art Museum)

Florence Nightingale Levy (1870–1947) (Baltimore Museum of Art)

Gertrude Herdle Moore (1896–1993) (Memorial Art Gallery)

Beatrice Winser (Newark Museum)

1930s

Adelyn (Dohme) Breeskin (1896–1986) (Baltimore Museum of Art)

Juliana R. Force (1876–1948) (Whitney Museum of American Art)

Dr. Grace McCann Morley (1900–1985) (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)

Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967) (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)

1940s

Katherine Coffey (Newark Museum)

Alice Kendall (Newark Museum)

Agnes Mongan (1905–1996) (Harvard Art Museums)

Isabel Spaulding Roberts (Brooklyn Museum)

Esther I. Seaver (Dayton Art Institute)

Ala Story (1907–1972) (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)

1950s

Katherine Hanna (Taft Museum of Art)

1960s

Jean Sutherland Boggs (1922-2014) (National Gallery of Canada

Dorothy Mayhall (1925–1995) (Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Storm King)

1970s

Jean Sutherland Boggs (1922-2014) (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Muriel B. Christison (Krannert Art Museum)

Suzanne Delehanty (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia) (Contemporary Museum Houston) (Center for the Fine Arts, Miami)

Cathleen Gallander (Art Museum of South Texas)

Kathryn E. Gamble (1933–2011) (Montclair Art Museum)

Alana Heiss (born 1943) (P.S.1 now MoMA PS1)

Shirley Reiff Howarth (born 1944) (Muskegon Museum of Art, formerly known as the Hackley Art Museum 1975-1979; Tampa Art Museum, 1979-1981)

Dorothy Mayhall (1925–1995) (Storm King Art Center)

Jan Keene Muhlert (born 1942)(University of Iowa Museum of Art)

Hsio-Yen Shih (1933–2001) (National Gallery of Canada)

1980s

Linda Bantel (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)

Jacquelynn Bass (Hood Museum of Art) (University Art Museum, Berkeley)

Jane Bledsoe (Georgia Museum of Art)

Elizabeth Broun (National Museum of American Art)

Mary Schmidt Campbell (born 1948) (Studio Museum in Harlem)

Linda Cathcart (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston)

Priscilla Colt (University of Kentucky Art Museum)

Kinshasha Homan Conwill (Studio Museum in Harlem)

Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Frye Art Museum)

Barbara Knowles Debs (New-York Historical Society)

Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943–2008) (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Mary Gardner Gates (Yale University Art Gallery) (Seattle Art Museum)

Adelheid M. Gealt (Indiana University Art Museum)

Barbara Gibbs (Crocker Art Museum) (Cincinnati Art Museum)

Constance W. Glenn (Art Museum, California State University)

Anne Hawley (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)

Marilyn Hoffman (Currier Museum of Art)

Holly Hotchner (New-York Historical Society)

Janet Kardon (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia) (American Craft Museum)

Emily Kass (Fort Wayne Museum of Art) (Tampa Museum of Art) (University of New Mexico Art Museum) (Fort Wayne Museum of Art)

Lyndel King (Weisman Art Museum)

Mary H. Kujawski (University of Iowa, Museum of Art)

Marcia Manhart (Philbrook Museum of Art)

Ursula E. McCracken (Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.))

Ruth Meyer (Taft Museum of Art)

Marena Grant Morrisey (Orlando Museum of Art)

Andrea S. Norris (Spencer Museum of Art)

Barbara S. Nosanow (Portland Museum of Art)

Dr. Christina Orr-Cahall (Oakland Museum of Art) (Norton Museum of Art) (Corcoran Gallery of Art

Merribell Parsons (Columbus Museum of Art)

Carol A. Phillips (Winnipeg Art Gallery)

Dianne Pilgrim (Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum)

Joan Rosenbaum (Jewish Museum (Manhattan))

Linda Shearer (Williams College Museum of Art, CAC)

Innis Shoemaker (Ackland Art Museum)

Rochelle Slovin (Museum of the Moving Image)

Cheryll Sotheran (1986-1989 director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery; 1989-1992, director of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery,1992-2002 director of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa)

Nancy Spector, Deputy Director (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)

Lisa M. Taylor (Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum)

Shirley Thomson (1930-2010) (National Gallery of Canada)

Edith Tonelli (Wight Art Gallery)

Marcia Tucker (1940–2006) (New Museum of Contemporary Art)

Julia Brown Turrell (Des Moines Art Center)

Barbara A. Tyler (McMichael Canadian Art Collection)

Katherine J. Watson (Bowdoin College Museum of Art)

Sylvia H. Williams (National Museum of African Art)

1990s

Kathy Halbreich (Walker Art Center)

Jenny Harper (1990-1992 director of New Zealand's National Art Gallery (now the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa); 2006-present director of the Christchurch Art Gallery)

Holly Hotchner (Museum of Art and Design)

Jan Keene Muhlert (born 1942) (Amon Carter Museum) (Palmer Museum of Art)

Ann Philbin (Hammer Museum)

Kimerly Rorschach (Smart Museum of Art)

Mary Sue Sweeney (Newark Museum)

Elsie McCabe Thompson (Museum for African Art)

Roslyn Walker (National Museum of African Art)

2000 to present

Hope Alswang, Norton Museum of Art

Rael Artel, Tartu Art Museum

Maria Balshaw, director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries (which includes Manchester Art Gallery and Gallery of Costume)

Ivy Barsky, Director and Chief Executive Officer (National Museum of American Jewish History)

Kathleen Bartels (Vancouver Art Gallery)

Caroline Baumann (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Annette Blaugrund (National Academy Museum and School)

Holly Block (Bronx Museum of the Arts)

Nathalie Bondil, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Patricia Bovey (Winnipeg Art Gallery)

Leslie Greene Bowman (Winterthur Museum)

Betsey Bradley, Mississippi Museum of Art

Karen Brosius, Columbia Museum of Art

Elizabeth Broun, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

Laurene Buckley (Queens Museum)

Janet Carding, (Royal Ontario Museum 2010-2015; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 2015-present)

Melissa Chiu (born 1972) (Asia Society)

Johnnetta Cole, National Museum of African Art

Lisa Corrin, Williams College Museum of Art, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art

Sharon Corwin, Colby College Museum of Art

Suzanne Cotter, Serralves

Silvia Karma Cubina, Bass Museum of Art

Rhana Devenport (director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 2006-2013; director of the Auckland Art Gallery 2013-present)

Suzanne Delehanty, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Center

Graciela de la Torre (Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte)

Donna de Salvo, Deputy Director (Whitney Museum of American Art)

Jill Deupi, Lowe Art Museum

Gretchen Dietrich, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Jenny Dixon (Noguchi Museum)

Janice Driesbach (Sheldon Museum of Art) (Dayton Art Institute)

Tina Dunkley, Clark Atlanta University Galleries

Susan Edwards, Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Kristin Evenden, Glenbow Museum

Lori Fogarty, Oakland Museum of California

Courtney Gardner, Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC)

Adelheid M. Gealt, Indiana University Art Museum

Thelma Golden (born 1966) (Studio Museum in Harlem)

Claudia Gould (born 1956) (Institute of Contemporary Art) (Jewish Museum)

Judy Greenberg, founding director of Kreeger Museum

Deborah Gribbon (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Madeleine Grynsztejn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Lynn Gumpert, Grey Art Gallery

Saralyn Reece Hardy, Spencer Museum of Art

Kathleen Harleman (Krannert Art Museum)

Rebecca Alban Hoffberger (American Visionary Art Museum)

Holly Hotchner, Museum of Arts and Design

Mercedes Itube (Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes)

Kathleen Jameson, Mint Museum

Lial Jones (Crocker Art Museum)

Emily Kass (Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina)

Dr. Dorothy Kosinski (The Phillips Collection)

Susan Krane, San Jose Museum of Art

Georgianna Lagoria (The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu)

Marilyn Laufer, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art

Cathy Leff (Wolfsonian)

Diane Lesko (Telfair Museum of Art)

Peggy Loar, Corcoran Gallery of Art

Susan Longhenry (Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM)

Elsie Crum McCabe (New Africa Center Museum for African Art)

Nannette Maciejunes (Columbus Museum of Art)

Kate Markert, Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens

Jill Medvedow (Institute of Contemporary Art)

Amy Meyers (Yale Center for British Art)

Louise Mirrer (New-York Historical Society)

Marena Grant Morrisey, Orlando Museum of Art

Laurie Norton Moffat (Norman Rockwell Museum)

Alexandra Munroe (Japan Society)

Rebecca Nagy, Samuel Harn Museum

Jessica F. Nicoll, Smith College Museum of Art

Judith H. O’Toole, Westmoreland Museum of American Art

Anne Pasternak (Brooklyn Museum)

Sharon Patton (born 1944) (Allen Memorial Art Museum)

Lisa Phillips (New Museum of Contemporary Art)

Raphaela Platow, Contemporary Arts Center

Ellen Plummer (Arkansas Art Center)

Jordana Pomeroy [Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum]

Anne Poulet (The Frick Collection)

Renee Price (Neue Galerie New York)

Lourdes I. Ramos, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

Danielle Rice, Delaware Art Museum

Andrea Rich (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Kimerly Rorschach (Seattle Art Museum) (Nasher Art Museum)

Amy Sadao, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

Kim Sajet, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Estela Sandrini, Oscar Niemeyer Museum

Katrina Sedgwick (Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2015-present)

Kate Sellers (Wadsworth Atheneum)

Bonnie Speed (Michael C. Carlos Museum)

Stephanie Stebich, Tacoma Art Museum

Susan Fisher Sterling, National Museum of Women in the Arts

Lowery Stokes Sims (Studio Museum in Harlem)

Terrie Sultan, Parrish Art Museum

Lora Urbanelli, Montclair Art Museum

Roxana Velasquez (Museo National de Arte) (San Diego Museum of Art)

Olga Viso (Hirshorn Museum) (Walker Art Center)

Simone Wicha, The Blanton Museum of Art

Karol Wight, Corning Museum of Glass

Stephanie Wiles (Allen Memorial Art Museum) (Herbert F. Johnson Museum)

Sylvia Wolf, Henry Art Gallery

Lynn Zelevansky, Carnegie Museum of Art

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobsen, Aspen Art Museum

References

List of female art museum directors Wikipedia

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