Leah Dickerman is the director of research programs at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[1] She was formerly director of editorial & content strategy at MoMA.[2][3] Serving previously as the museum’s first Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture,[4][5] a post endowed in 2015, Dickerman previously held the positions of curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA (2008–2015), acting head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington, D.C. (2007), and associate curator in modern and contemporary art at the NGA (2001–2007). Over the course of her career, Dickerman has organized or co-organized a series of exhibitions including One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Works (2015), Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 (2012–2013), Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art (2011–2012), Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity (2009–2010), Dada (2005–2006),[6] and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1998).

Dickerman has served on the editorial board of the journal October[7] since 2001 and has written extensively on European art between the two World Wars. She was assistant professor of art history at Stanford University from 1997 to 2000 and has also taught at Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Delaware. She was the David E. Finley Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art.

In 2019, Leah Dickerman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8]

Education

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Selected bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Leah Dickerman | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  2. ^ "Leah Dickerman (CCL 2012) appointed as MoMAs first Director of Editorial & Content Strategy". Center for Curatorial Leadership. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  3. ^ The Museum of Modern Art Appoints Rob Baker as Director of Marketing & Creative Strategy and Leah Dickerman as Director of Editorial & Content Strategy
  4. ^ "MoMA Appoints Leah Dickerman To Newly Endowed Position In Department Of Painting And Sculpture, Supported By Trustee Marlene Hess". February 9, 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-04-03.
  5. ^ "MoMA Appoints Leah Dickerman To Newly Endowed Position In Department Of Painting And Sculpture". ArtfixDaily. February 10, 2015. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  6. ^ Trachtman, Paul (May 2006). "A Brief History of Dada". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  7. ^ "MIT Press Journals". MIT Press Journals. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  8. ^ "New 2019 Academy Members Announced". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 17 April 2019. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  9. ^ Leah Dickerman, Achim Borchardt-Hume (2016). Robert Rauschenberg. New York, N.Y. : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the U.S. by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
  10. ^ Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall (2015). Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series. New York, N.Y. : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the U.S. by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
  11. ^ Leah Dickerman (2012). Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art. New York, N.Y. : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the U.S. by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
  12. ^ Leah Dickerman and Anna Indych-Lopez (2011). Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art. New York, N.Y. : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the U.S. by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
  13. ^ Edited by Isabel Schulz; contributions by Leah Dickerman [et al.] (2010). Kurt Schwitters : Color and Collage. Houston : The Menil Collection ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press.

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