Awards
- 2014: ArtTable New Leadership Awards [15]
Amy Sadao | |
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| Born | 1971 Los Angeles, California |
| Education | B.F.A., Cooper Union School of Art, 1995 M.A., Comparative Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley, 2000 |
Amy Sadao is a contemporary art curator and nonprofit consultant who was director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia from September 2012 to September 2019. [1] [2] [3] [4] Sadao was executive director of Visual AIDS in New York City prior to her appointment to the ICA directorship. [5] She has been known to engage diverse communities and to center art around the contemporary social and political issues across the globe. [6]
Born in California in 1971, [7] Sadao grew up in Huntington Beach, California. [8] She received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1995 and an MA in comparative ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. [2]
Sadao began her career in museums as a curatorial intern at the Whitney Museum of American Art. [2] At the Whitney museum, she worked with curator, Thelma Golden. [8]
Sadao was the executive director of Visual AIDS in New York City for ten years, from 2002 through 2012. [9] During her time at Visual AIDS, she increased outreach and expanded available resources surrounding HIV/AIDS to encourage discussion and support of HIV+ artists. In June 2012, she became the Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). [10]
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced her appointment to a directorship named for Daniel W. Dietrich II, honoring his substantial financial gift in 2005. In 2015, he also gave a US$10 million endowment to the university [11] in support of its curatorial program and to help bring artists to Philadelphia. [12] Describing her as "a leader of unparalleled energy and vision", Gutmann commented, "She has an especially strong commitment to forging collaborations across a wide range of diverse communities and placing art at the center of dialogue about the most significant intellectual, political, and social issues of the contemporary world." [13] Price said, "I have been particularly impressed by her understanding of the role of art in a research university – and in catalyzing intellectual and interdisciplinary inquiry in general – as well as by the knowledge she brings of Penn and Philadelphia." [13]
She was elected to the board of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council in 2015. [14]
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