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Museum director
Jordana Pomeroy is an American Museum director, author and former curator. She is the Director and CEO of Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire. She served as the Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU from 2015 to 2024.
Early life and education
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Pomeroy grew up in New York City. She is the daughter of architect Lee Harris Pomeroy and historian-professor Sarah B. Pomeroy.[1] She developed an early appreciation for art and history through family trips, including visits to architectural works by Le Corbusier as well as ancient ruins.[2]
Pomeroy later pursued B.A. in art history from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and earned her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University.[3]
Pomeroy started working as an intern at the Museum of Modern Art while she was in high school.[4]
After graduate school, she worked at the National Museum of Women in the Arts as the chief curator, where she published notable catalogues including contemporary Scandinavian design and 16th century Renaissance art. Later, she became the Director at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art,[5] teaching in the museum studies department. She has also taught in Georgetown University.[3][4]
Pomeroy joined the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum as a director in January 2015.[6] At the museum, she has co-curated multiple exhibitions, including Narciso Rodriguez: An Exercise in Minimalism and Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia.[7][3]
Since September 2024, Pomeroy is the Director and CEO of Currier Museum of Art.[8][9]
Some of her notable exhibitions includes,[10]
- An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum (2003)
- Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers (2004)
- Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (2007)
- Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind (2010)[11]
- Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and other French National Collections (2012)[12][13]
- Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel[14][15]
- Italian Women Artists: From Renaissance to Baroque[16]
- An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum[17]
- ^ Sandomir, Richard (25 February 2018). “Lee Harris Pomeroy, 85, Dies; Architect Revived Subway Stations”. The New York Times.
- ^ Merril, Scott (August 21, 2024). “New Leaders You Should Know: Jordana Pomeroy”. www.businessnhmagazine.com.
- ^ a b c Elman; Rinnhofer; Cheek (27 June 2017). “Jordana Pomeroy — Being Expansive at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum”. Inspicio – Florida International University.
- ^ a b Dunseyar, Sarah (18 March 2015). “Profile: Jordana Pomeroy”. Miami Today.
- ^ Miller, Robin. “Jordana Pomeroy leaves LSU Museum of Art for post in Florida”. The Advocate.
- ^ “JORDANA POMEROY NAMED NEW DIRECTOR AT FIU FROST ART MUSEUM”. Artforum.com.
- ^ Safronova, Valeriya (19 October 2016). “On Debate Night, Celebrating a Book About Immigrants”. The New York Times.
- ^ Richardson, Olivia (21 May 2024). “New Currier Museum CEO wants to connect the Granite State through art”. New Hampshire Public Radio.
- ^ “Currier Announces New Director/CEO”. Currier Museum.
- ^ LICON, Adriana Gomez (November 27, 2021). “Bob Dylan artwork show to open in Miami”. NY Daily News.
- ^ “Louisiana State University names Jordana Pomeroy Executive Director of Museum of Art”. artdaily.cc.
- ^ Broude, Norma (1 September 2013). “Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections. Exhibition organized and on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 24 February 2012—29 July 2012, Jordana Pomeroy, Laura Auricchio, Melissa Lee Hyde, and Mary D. Sheriff”. Early Modern Women. 8: 329–339. doi:10.1086/EMW23617859. ISSN 1933-0065.
- ^ Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly (2012). “Review of Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from The Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections”. Woman’s Art Journal. 33 (2): 62–64. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 24395299.
- ^ Reviews of Intrepid Women
- ^ Rhodes, Kimberly (2009). “She’s Leaving Home: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Women and the Visual Arts”. Journal of Women’s History. 21 (4): 205–212. doi:10.1353/jowh.0.0104. ISSN 1527-2036. S2CID 144434507.
- ^ Reviews of Italian Women Artists
- ^ Reviews of An Imperial Collection
