2012 American Directors

The first Chinese American director at a major U.S. art museum, Dr. Jay Xu is Director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (AAMSF). Prior to his appointment at AAMSF in 2008, he was Chairman [...]

Dan L. Monroe, the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO, has led the Peabody Essex Museum through a remarkable set of transformations since assuming leadership in 1993. Dan has [...]

Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker is director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, and former director of the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, Germany, and the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. She [...]

Neal Benezra has been Director of SFMOMA since 2002. Benezra had previously served as Deputy Director and Frances and Thomas Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of [...]

Melissa Chiu is director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Previously she was director of Asia Society Museum in New York and senior vice president for global arts [...]