Jordana Pomeroy is an American Museum director, author and former curator. In September 2024 she became the ninth director of the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire. She served as the Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU from 2015-2024.
Jordana Pomeroy | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Museum director, author and former curator |
| Years active | 2024-present |
| Known for | Director at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University |
| Thesis | Collecting the past to create a future : the old masters, artists, and patrons in early nineteenth-century England (1996) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Currier Museum of Art |
Early life and education
editPomeroy is the daughter of architect Lee Harris Pomeroy and professor Sarah B. Pomeroy.[1]
She grew up in New York City. She received her B.A. in art history from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and earned her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University.[2]
Career
editPomeroy started working as an intern at the Museum of Modern Art while she was in high school.[3]
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,[4] teaching in the museum studies department. She has also taught in Georgetown University.[2][3]
Pomeroy joined the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum as a director in January 2015.[5] 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.[6][2]
Selected works
editExhibitions
editSome of her notable exhibitions includes,[7]
- 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)[8]
- Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and other French National Collections (2012)[9][10]
Published works
editReferences
edit- ^ Sandomir, Richard (25 February 2018). "Lee Harris Pomeroy, 85, Dies; Architect Revived Subway Stations". The New York Times.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- Faxon, Alicia Craig (2006). "Review of Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel". Woman's Art Journal. 27 (2): 40–41. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 20358090.
- PALMER, CAROLINE (2009). "Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century edited by Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland; Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel edited by Jordana Pomeroy; Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905 by Meaghan Clarke". Gender & History. 21 (2): 444–448. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01557_11.x.
- Dykes, Melissa. "Melissa Dykes's Review of Monica Anderson's Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914 and Jordana Pomeroy's Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel • Issue 3.3 • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies". Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
- ^ 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
- Quin, Sally (2008). "Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (review)". Parergon. 25 (1): 217–219. doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0048. ISSN 1832-8334. S2CID 143886338.
- Och, Marjorie (2007). "Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., March 16 through July 15, 2007". Early Modern Women. 2: 193–197. doi:10.1086/EMW23541482. ISSN 1933-0065. JSTOR 23541482.
- Poole, Katherine M. (2008). "Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque". Woman's Art Journal. 29 (1): 41–43. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 20358145.
- ^ Reviews of An Imperial Collection
- Hilton, Alison (2004). "Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum". Woman's Art Journal. 25 (2): 33–35. doi:10.2307/3566516. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 3566516.
- Mesropova, Olga (2004). "Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum". Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes. 46 (3/4): 515–516. ISSN 0008-5006. JSTOR 40860070.