Biography
Charles Joseph Desmarais was born on April 21,1949,in the United States,and raised in The Bronx in New York City. Desmarais earned a bachelor's and master's degree from the State University of New York,Buffalo,and was a 1983 participant in the Museum Management Institute (later the Getty Leadership Institute program of the Getty Foundation). [1]
In the 1980s,Desmarais directed the California Museum of Photography at the University of California,Riverside. [2] He was director of the Laguna Art Museum,in Laguna Beach,California from 1988 to 1994. He then served as director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati from 1995 until January 2004. [3] From 2005 to 2011,he was deputy director for art at the Brooklyn Museum,where he oversaw ten curatorial departments,as well as the museum’s education,exhibitions,conservation and library activities. [4]
In 2011,he was appointed president of the San Francisco Art Institute,a position he left on November 1,2015. [5] [6] [7]
He is married to Kitty Morgan,former editor-in-chief of Sunset magazine,and later assistant managing editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. [8] [9]
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