Ann Temkin
Ann Temkin is Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and organizer of the current exhibition “Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection.”
From 1990 through 2003 she was the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her exhibitions and catalogues include Barnett Newman (2002), Alice Neel (2000-2001), Raymond Pettibon (1998), Constantin Brancusi (1995), and Thinking is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys (1993).
In Philadelphia she also established the exhibition series Museum Studies, which invited contemporary artists to create new work responding to the Museum’s collection, building, or historical context.
She has contributed essays to numerous periodicals, books, and catalogues, including Eva Hesse (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002), Robert Gober (Walker Art Center, 1999) and Mortality/Immortality? The Legacy of 20th Century Art (The Getty Conservation Institute, 1999).
Ms. Temkin is currently Secretary of the National Association of Art Museum Curators. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Yale University.
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