2014 American Directors

Connie Wolf became the John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Cantor Arts Center on January 1, 2012.  After graduating from Stanford, where her degree was in East Asian studies, she worked at [...]

Michael E. Shapiro became the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. director of the High Museum of Art in 2000 and joined the High’s leadership in 1995. He has overseen the reinstallation of the [...]

Dr. William M. Griswold became the tenth director of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2014, following seven years as director of The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Griswold served as [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]