Jordana Pomeroy

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Jordana Pomeroy
NationalityAmerican
OccupationMuseum director, author and former curator
Known forDirector at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum
Academic background
Alma mater Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University
Thesis Collecting the past to create a future : the old masters, artists, and patrons in early nineteenth-century England  (1996)

Jordana Pomeroy is an American Museum director, author and former curator. She is the director of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami.

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Early life and education

Pomeroy is the daughter of architect Lee Harris Pomeroy and professor Sarah B. Pomeroy. [1]

She grew up in New York City. She received her B.A. in art history from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and earned her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. [2]

Career

Pomeroy started working as an intern at the Museum of Modern Art while she was in high school. [3]

After graduate school, she worked at the National Museum of Women in the Arts as the chief curator, where she published notable catalogues including contemporary Scandinavian design and 16th century Renaissance art. Later, she became the Director at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, [4] teaching in the museum studies department. She has also taught in Georgetown University. [2] [3]

Pomeroy joined the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum as a director in January 2015. [5] At the museum, she has co-curated multiple exhibitions, including Narciso Rodriguez: An Exercise in Minimalism and Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia. [6] [2]

Selected works

Exhibitions

Some of her notable exhibitions includes, [7]

Published works

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