Jonathan P. Binstock

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Jonathan P. Binstock
Education Washington University in St. Louis (B.A.);
University of Michigan (M.A.; Ph.D.)
Occupation(s) Curator, Art historian, Arts administrator
Years active1997-Present
Employer The Phillips Collection
TitleVradenburg Director and CEO [1]

Jonathan P. Binstock is an American art historian, curator and museum administrator, and the director of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., since 2023. He previously served as director of the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, and as a curator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He also worked for Citibank's art finance & advisory division for several years as an art adviser. His primary curatorial and research focus is modern and contemporary art.

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Early life and education

Jonathan P. Binstock was born in New York, and raised on Long Island. [2]

Binstock received a bachelor's degree in art history and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. [2] He completed his master's degree and Ph.D. in art history at the University of Michigan. [2] His doctoral dissertation explored the career of artist Sam Gilliam, and Binstock visited Gilliam several times as part of his research. [3] He received a Smithsonian American Art Museum fellowship to support his research in 1996. [4]

He taught at the University of Michigan while earning his graduate degrees. [2]

Career

Early curatorial career

Binstock served as a curatorial assistant at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the late 1990s. He also taught at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] He was soon hired by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as a curator, starting in 2000. [2] He later told Artnet News that he had been hired on the condition that he begin organizing a retrospective exhibition for artist Sam Gilliam, which he curated in 2005. [5]

Other exhibitions organized by Binstock during this period included a solo show of work by Andy Warhol. [2]

Citibank

In 2007 Binstock left the Corcoran and joined Citibank's art finance & advisory division. [3] His responsibilities included assessing clients' private collections, advising clients on purchases of art, and assisting the bank in valuing art as financial assets for loans. [3] He later said that the connections he made while working at Citi became an extensive fundraising network for his museum work. [3] [2]

Binstock became the seventh director of the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) in 2014. [2] He told the Democrat and Chronicle shortly after the announcement of his hiring that he planned to leverage his connections from his time as an art adviser to help raise money to sustain the museum, which he viewed as his primary role as director. [2]

While at the MAG, Binstock helped secure donations to renovate an exhibition space, and commissioned work by artist Isaac Julien. [3]

Phillips Collection

In 2022, The Phillips Collection in Washington, announced that Binstock would become the seventh director of the museum, and he began in the role in 2023. [3]

Personal life

Binstock is married, and he and his wife Ann have one daughter, Ellen. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Phillips Collection Announces Jonathan P. Binstock as its New Director" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The Phillips Collection. 30 November 2022. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Spevak, Todd (7 July 2014). "Jonathan Binstock new director at MAG" . Democrat and Chronicle . Rochester, New York. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kennicott, Philip (30 November 2022). "Phillips Collection hires art historian as new director" . The Washington Post . Archived from the original on 14 January 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  4. ↑ "Fellow: Jonathan P. Binstock". SAAM. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Archived from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  5. ↑ Capps, Kriston (8 July 2022). "Painter Sam Gilliam Spent His Entire Career in Washington, D.C. Here's How the City Sustained Him When the Art World Wasn't Watching". Artnet News . Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
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