List of female art museum directors

This is a list of notable female art museum directors.

List

Name	Dates	Museum	Country	Tenure
Hope Alswang		Rhode Island School of Design Museum^[1] Norton Museum of Art^[1]^[2]	USA	2000s
Rael Artel		Tartu Art Museum^[3]	Estonia	2000s
Jacquelynn Baas		Hood Museum of Art University Art Museum, Berkeley	USA	1980s&90s
Maria Balshaw		Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries Tate	UK	2006-17 2017- ^[4]
Ivy Barsky		National Museum of American Jewish History^[5]	USA	2000s
Kathleen Bartels		Vancouver Art Gallery	Canada	2000s
Linda Bantel		Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts	USA	1980s
Caroline Baumann		Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum	USA	2000s
Annette Blaugrund		National Academy Museum and School	USA	2000s
Jane Bledsoe		Georgia Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Holly Block		Bronx Museum of the Arts	USA	2000s
Jean Sutherland Boggs	1922–2014	National Gallery of Canada	Canada	1960s–1970s
Nathalie Bondil		Montreal Museum of Fine Arts	Canada	2000s
Patricia Bovey		Winnipeg Art Gallery	Canada	2000s
Leslie Greene Bowman		Winterthur Museum	USA	2000s
Betsey Bradley		Mississippi Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin	1896–1986	Baltimore Museum of Art	USA	1930s
Karen Brosius		Columbia Museum of Art		2000s
Elizabeth Broun		National Museum of American Art Smithsonian American Art Museum^[6]	USA	1980s–2000s
Andrea Barnwell Brownlee		Spelman College Museum of Fine Art	USA	2000s
Laurene Buckley		Queens Museum	USA	2000s
Mary Schmidt Campbell	born 1948	Studio Museum in Harlem	USA	1980s
Janet Carding		Royal Ontario Museum Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery	Australia, Canada	2010–2015 2015–present
Lucy Shelton Caswell		Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum	USA	1977–2010
Linda Cathcart		Contemporary Arts Museum Houston	USA	1980s
Melissa Chiu	born 1972	Asia Society	USA	2000s
Muriel B. Christison		Krannert Art Museum	USA	1970s
Sara Cochran	born 1967	Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art	USA	2010s
Katherine Coffey		Newark Museum	USA	1940s
Johnnetta Cole		National Museum of African Art	USA	2000s
Caroline Collier		Arnolfini	UK	1999-2005
Priscilla Colt		University of Kentucky Art Museum	USA	1980s
Annette Cone-Skelton		Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA)	USA	2000–Present
Kinshasha Holman Conwill		Studio Museum in Harlem	USA	1980s
Lisa Corrin		Williams College Museum of Art Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Sharon Corwin		Colby College Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Suzanne Cotter		Serralves	Portugal	2000s
Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox		Honolulu Museum of Art	USA	1920s
Silvia Karma Cubina		Bass Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker		Vancouver Art Gallery Frye Art Museum	Canada	1980s
Elliot Bostwick Davis		Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	USA	2000s
Barbara Knowles Debs		New-York Historical Society ^[7]	USA	1980s
Rhana Devenport		Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Auckland Art Gallery	New Zealand	2006–2013 2013–present
Anne d'Harnoncourt	1943–2008	Philadelphia Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Suzanne Delehanty		Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Contemporary Museum Houston Center for the Fine Arts, Miami Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Center	USA	1970s–2000s
Graciela de la Torre		Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes	Mexico	2000s
Jill Deupi		Lowe Art Museum	USA	2000s
Gretchen Dietrich		Utah Museum of Fine Arts	USA	2000s
Jenny Dixon		Noguchi Museum	USA	2000s
Claire Doherty		Arnolfini	UK	2017-
Janice Driesbach		Sheldon Museum of Art Dayton Art Institute	USA	2000s
Tina Dunkley		Clark Atlanta University Galleries	USA	2000s
Susan Edwards		Frist Center for the Visual Arts	USA	2000s
Kristin Evenden		Glenbow Museum	Canada	2000s
Charlotte Eyerman		JPMorgan Chase Art Collection^[8] (2017-) Monterey Museum of Art^[9] (2013–16) FRAME (French Regional & American Museums Exchange) (2010–13) Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (2009–10)	USA	2000s
Lori Fogarty		Oakland Museum of California	USA	2000s
Juliana R. Force	1876–1948	Whitney Museum of American Art	USA	1930s
Cathleen Gallander		Art Museum of South Texas	USA	1970s
Kathryn E. Gamble	1933–2011	Montclair Art Museum	USA	1970s
Courtney Gardner		Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC)	USA	2000s
Alison Gass		Smart Museum of Art	USA	2017–present
Mary Gardner Gates		Yale University Art Gallery Seattle Art Museum	USA	1980s
Adelheid M. Gealt		Indiana University Art Museum	USA	1980s–2000s
Barbara Gibbs		Crocker Art Museum Cincinnati Art Museum	USA	1980s
Constance W. Glenn		Art Museum, California State University	USA	1980s
Thelma Golden	born 1966	Studio Museum in Harlem	USA	2000s
Claudia Gould	born 1956	Institute of Contemporary Art Jewish Museum	USA	2000s
Judy Greenberg		Kreeger Museum^[6]	USA	2000s
Deborah Gribbon		J. Paul Getty Museum	USA	2000s
Madeleine Grynsztejn		Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago	USA	2000s
Lynn Gumpert		Grey Art Gallery	USA	2000s
Kathy Halbreich		Walker Art Center	USA	1990s
Katherine Hanna		Taft Museum of Art	USA	1950s
Saralyn Reece Hardy		Spencer Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Kathleen Harleman		Krannert Art Museum	USA	2000s
Jenny Harper		Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Christchurch Art Gallery	New Zealand	1990–1992 2006–present
Anne Hawley		Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum	USA	1980s
Alanna Heiss	born 1943	P.S.1 now MoMA PS1	USA	1970s
Rebecca Alban Hoffberger		American Visionary Art Museum	USA	2000s
Marilyn Hoffman		Currier Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Holly Hotchner		New-York Historical Society Museum of Arts and Design	USA	1980s–2000s
Shirley Reiff Howarth	born 1944	Muskegon Museum of Art Tampa Art Museum USA		1975–1979 1979–1981
Katherine Innes		Montclair Art Museum	USA	1920s
Mercedes Itube		Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes	Mexico	2000s
Tessa Jackson	1955	Arnolfini	UK	1991-99
Kathleen Jameson		Mint Museum	USA	2000s
Ethel Bowditch Jones	1906-1990	Fitchburg Art Museum (fmly Fitchburg Art Center)	USA	1929-1933 ^[10]
Lial Jones		Crocker Art Museum	USA	2000s
Janet Kardon		Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia American Craft Museum	USA	1980s
Emily Kass		Tampa Museum of Art University of New Mexico Art Museum Fort Wayne Museum of Art Ackland Art Museum	USA	1980s–2000s
Alice Kendall		Newark Museum	USA	1940s
Lyndel King		Weisman Art Museum	USA	1980s
Dr. Dorothy Kosinski		The Phillips Collection	USA	2000s
Susan Krane		San Jose Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Mary H. Kujawski		University of Iowa Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Georgianna Lagoria		The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu	USA	2000s
Marilyn Laufer		Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art	USA	2000s
Cathy Leff		Wolfsonian	USA	2000s
Diane Lesko		Telfair Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Florence Nightingale Levy	1870–1947	Baltimore Museum of Art	USA	1920s
Peggy Loar		Corcoran Gallery of Art^[6]	USA	2000s
Susan Longhenry		Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee	USA	2000s
Donna Lynas		Wysing Arts Centre	UK	2005-
Nannette Maciejunes		Columbus Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Marcia Manhart		Philbrook Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Kate Markert		Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens	USA	2000s
Dorothy Mayhall	1925–1995	Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Storm King Art Center	USA	1960s–1970s
Elsie Crum McCabe		New Africa Center Museum for African Art	USA	2000s
Ursula E. McCracken		Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)	USA	1980s
Jill Medvedow		Institute of Contemporary Art	USA	2000s
Ruth Meyer		Taft Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Amy Meyers		Yale Center for British Art	USA	2000s
Louise Mirrer		New-York Historical Society	USA	2000s
Lulu F. Miller	1916–1930	Muskegon Museum of Art ^[11]	USA	1910s
Marena Grant Morrisey		Orlando Museum of Art	USA	1980s–2000s
Laurie Norton Moffat		Norman Rockwell Museum	USA	2000s
Agnes Mongan	1905–1996	Harvard Art Museums	USA	1940s
Gertrude Herdle Moore	1896–1993	Memorial Art Gallery	USA	1920s
Grace Morley	1900–1985	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art	USA	1930s
Frances Morris	1959-	Tate Modern	UK	2016-
Jan Keene Muhlert	born 1942	University of Iowa Museum of Art Amon Carter Museum Palmer Museum of Art	USA	1970s–1990s
Alexandra Munroe		Japan Society		2000s
Rebecca Nagy		Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Jessica F. Nicoll		Smith College Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Andrea S. Norris		Spencer Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Barbara S. Nosanow		Portland Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Dr. Christina Orr-Cahall		Oakland Museum of Art Norton Museum of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art	USA	1980s
Judith H. O’Toole		Westmoreland Museum of American Art	USA	2000s
Merribell Parsons		Columbus Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Anne Pasternak		Brooklyn Museum	USA	2000s
Sharon Patton	born 1944	Allen Memorial Art Museum	USA	2000s
Ann Philbin		Hammer Museum	USA	1990s
Carol A. Phillips		Winnipeg Art Gallery	Canada	1980s
Lisa Phillips		New Museum of Contemporary Art	USA	2000s
Dianne Pilgrim		Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum	USA	1980s
Raphaela Platow		Contemporary Arts Center	USA	2000s
Mary Platt		Hilbert Museum of California Art ^[12]	USA	2000s
Ellen Plummer		Arkansas Art Center	USA	2000s
Jordana Pomeroy		Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum	USA	2000s
Anne Poulet		The Frick Collection	USA	2000s
Renee Price		Neue Galerie New York	USA	2000s
Laura Pye		Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery	UK	2015- ^[13]
Lourdes I. Ramos		Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico	USA	2000s
Hilla von Rebay	1890–1967	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	USA	1930s
Danielle Rice		Delaware Art Museum	USA	2000s
Andrea Rich		Los Angeles County Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Jenny E. Robb		Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum	USA	2011-
Kimerly Rorschach		Smart Museum of Art Seattle Art Museum Nasher Art Museum	USA	1990s–2000s
Joan Rosenbaum		Jewish Museum (Manhattan)	USA	1980s
Amy Sadao		Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia ^[14]	USA	2000s
Cornelia Bentley Sage	1876 or 1880–1936	Albright-Knox Gallery^[15]	USA	1910s
Kim Sajet		National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution	USA	2000s
Estela Sandrini		Oscar Niemeyer Museum	Brazil	2000s
Esther I. Seaver		Dayton Art Institute	USA	1940s
Katrina Sedgwick		Australian Centre for the Moving Image	Australia	2015–present
Kate Sellers		Wadsworth Atheneum	USA	2000s
Linda Shearer		Williams College Museum of Art, CAC	USA	1980s
Hsio-yen Shih	1933–2001	National Gallery of Canada	Canada	1970s
Innis Shoemaker		Ackland Art Museum	USA	1980s
Rochelle Slovin		Museum of the Moving Image ^[16]	USA	1980s
Cheryll Sotheran		Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Dunedin Public Art Gallery Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa	New Zealand	1986–1989 1989–1992 1992–2002
Isabel Spaulding Roberts		Brooklyn Museum	USA	1940s
Bonnie Speed		Michael C. Carlos Museum	USA	2000s
Stephanie Stebich		Tacoma Art Museum	USA	2000s
Susan Fisher Sterling		National Museum of Women in the Arts^[6]	USA	2000s
Lowery Stokes Sims		Studio Museum in Harlem	USA	2000s
Ala Story	1907–1972	Santa Barbara Museum of Art	USA	1940s
Terrie Sultan		Parrish Art Museum	USA	2000s
Mary Sue Sweeney		Newark Museum	USA	1990s
Lisa M. Taylor		Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum	USA	1980s
Elsie McCabe Thompson		Museum for African Art	USA	1990s
Shirley Thomson	1930–2010	National Gallery of Canada	Canada	1980s
Edith Tonelli		Wight Art Gallery		1980s
Marcia Tucker	1940–2006	New Museum of Contemporary Art	USA	1980s
Julia Brown Turrell		Des Moines Art Center	USA	1980s
Barbara A. Tyler		McMichael Canadian Art Collection	Canada	1980s
Lora Urbanelli		Montclair Art Museum	USA	2000s
Roxana Velasquez		Museo Nacional de Arte San Diego Museum of Art	Mexico, USA	2000s
Olga Viso		Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Walker Art Center	USA	2000s
Roslyn Walker		National Museum of African Art	USA	1990s
Katherine J. Watson		Bowdoin College Museum of Art	USA	1980s
Simone Wicha		The Blanton Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Karol Wight		Corning Museum of Glass	USA	2000s
Stephanie Wiles		Allen Memorial Art Museum Herbert F. Johnson Museum	USA	2000s
Sylvia H. Williams		National Museum of African Art	USA	1980s
Beatrice Winser		Newark Museum	USA	1920s
Sylvia Wolf		Henry Art Gallery	USA	2000s
Lynn Zelevansky		Carnegie Museum of Art	USA	2000s
Heidi Zuckerman		Aspen Art Museum	USA	2000s

References

^ ^a ^b "Hope Alswang Named Director and CEO of Norton Museum". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
^ "Members". Association of Art Museum Directors. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
^ "Rael Artel will continue as the Director of the Tartu Art Museum | Ministry of Culture". www.kul.ee. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
^ "Dr Maria Balshaw". National Museum Directors' Council. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
^ "Staff List". NMAJH. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Boyle, Katherine; O'Neal Parker, Lonnae (February 28, 2014). "The Directors". The Washington Post.
^ "Historical Society Names Leader". New York Times. October 2, 1992. Retrieved 2014-08-08. Mr. Pearlstine, who has been chairman of the Historical Society since April 1989, is to head a search committee to replace Dr. Barbara Knowles Debs, who retired yesterday after four years as president. ... {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ "New Director and Chief Curator of the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection Named | JPMorgan Chase & Co". JPMorgan Chase & Co. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
^ "Charlotte Eyerman leaves the Monterey Museum of Art". The Salinas Californian. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
^ Fitchburg Sentinel Newspaper Archives, Saturday, July 16, 1932 - Page 4; Fitchburg Sentinel Newspaper Archives, Sep 27, 1933, p. 7; see also JONES, ETHEL B. “FITCHBURG'S NEW ART CENTER.” The American Magazine of Art, vol. 21, no. 2, 1930, pp. 98–99. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23931378.
^ "History - Muskegon Art Museum". Muskegon Museum of Art. Retrieved 2016-02-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
^ "Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University". Hilbert Museum.
^ "Laura Pye, Head of Culture, Bristols Museums, Galleries & Archives". National Museum Directors' Council. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
^ Jacoby, Sarah (2012-06-22). "Amy Sadao Appointed Executive Director of the ICA Philadelphia". Art in America. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
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[artforum.com-1] "Hope Alswang Named Director and CEO of Norton Museum". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-03-17.

[2] "Members". Association of Art Museum Directors. Retrieved 2018-03-17.

[3] "Rael Artel will continue as the Director of the Tartu Art Museum | Ministry of Culture". www.kul.ee. Retrieved 2018-03-17.

[4] "Dr Maria Balshaw". National Museum Directors' Council. Retrieved 4 April 2018.

[5] "Staff List". NMAJH. Retrieved 2014-05-19.

[Boyle-6] Boyle, Katherine; O'Neal Parker, Lonnae (February 28, 2014). "The Directors". The Washington Post.

[names-7] "Historical Society Names Leader". New York Times. October 2, 1992. Retrieved 2014-08-08. Mr. Pearlstine, who has been chairman of the Historical Society since April 1989, is to head a search committee to replace Dr. Barbara Knowles Debs, who retired yesterday after four years as president. ... {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[8] "New Director and Chief Curator of the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection Named | JPMorgan Chase & Co". JPMorgan Chase & Co. Retrieved 2018-03-17.

[9] "Charlotte Eyerman leaves the Monterey Museum of Art". The Salinas Californian. Retrieved 2018-03-17.

[10] Fitchburg Sentinel Newspaper Archives, Saturday, July 16, 1932 - Page 4; Fitchburg Sentinel Newspaper Archives, Sep 27, 1933, p. 7; see also JONES, ETHEL B. “FITCHBURG'S NEW ART CENTER.” The American Magazine of Art, vol. 21, no. 2, 1930, pp. 98–99. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23931378.

[11] "History - Muskegon Art Museum". Muskegon Museum of Art. Retrieved 2016-02-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

[12] "Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University". Hilbert Museum.

[13] "Laura Pye, Head of Culture, Bristols Museums, Galleries & Archives". National Museum Directors' Council. Retrieved 4 April 2018.

[14] Jacoby, Sarah (2012-06-22). "Amy Sadao Appointed Executive Director of the ICA Philadelphia". Art in America. Retrieved 2015-04-21.

[15] "Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton Records, 1908-1930". Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Retrieved 21 May 2014.

[16] Pogrebin, Robin (November 3, 2010). "It's a Wrap: Director of Film Museum Plans to Retire". The New York Times.

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