Ann Goldstein (curator)

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Ann Goldstein
Born1957 (age 6566)
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation(s) Curator, museum director, artistic director
Years active1983–present
Spouse Christopher Williams

Ann Goldstein (1957) is an American curator currently serving as deputy director and chair of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Goldstein formerly served as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and as museum director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Goldstein was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, California, United States. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she got her Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art. [3]

Career

MOCA LA

Goldstein worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from 1983 to 2009. She was the senior curator from 2001 onwards. Her expertise was minimal and conceptual art of the 1960–70s and current practices. [3]

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

From 2010 until 2012, Goldstein was the museum director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, a museum of modern art, contemporary art, and design in Amsterdam, Netherlands. [4] Her first two and a half years at the Stedelijk, the museum was closed for renovation (since 2003), until it reopened for the general public in September 2012. [2] In 2013, she was the artistic director of the museum alongside Karin van Gilst as managing director, until Goldstein resigned and left the museum on 1 December 2013. [5] [6]

In 2011, Goldstein chaired the jury that awarded the Museum Ludwig's Wolfgang Hahn Prize to John Miller. [7]

Art Institute of Chicago

In March 2016, Goldstein was selected as the deputy director, chair, and curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. [8]

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References

  1. Organization: Directors: Ann Goldstein Archived November 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Retrieved on 2012-09-27.
  2. 1 2 Nina Siegal, Restoring a Long-Missing Dutch Reference Point, The New York Times , 2012. Retrieved on 2012-09-27.
  3. 1 2 Ann Goldstein appointed new director at Stedelijk Museum, Metropolis M, 2009. Retrieved on 2012-09-29.
  4. Suzanne Muchnic, MOCA curator Ann Goldstein to lead Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, Los Angeles Times , 2009. Retrieved on 2012-10-14.
  5. (in Dutch) Stedelijk heeft nieuwe algemeen directeur, Metropolis M, 2012. Retrieved on 2013-01-24.
  6. Ann Goldstein resigns as director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam as of december 1st 2013 (press release), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2013. Retrieved on 2013-08-28.
  7. Wolfgang Hahn Prize Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig Köln.
  8. Russeth, Andrew (24 March 2016). "Art Institute of Chicago Hires Ann Goldstein as Deputy Director and Chair of Modern and Contemporary art". ARTnews . Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2022.