Claudia Gould

Claudia Gould
Born	1956 (age 61–62) Connecticut
Nationality	American
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Art curator
Employer	Jewish Museum

Claudia Gould (born 1956) is an art curator and the Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director of The Jewish Museum in New York City.

Claudia Gould was born and raised near New Haven, Connecticut. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Boston College and a Masters from New York University.

As part of her education she was an intern at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum and Artists Space, NYC. Gould has worked as both a staff member and independent curator for various art institutions and museums. Her first curatorial position was at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, New York in 1983. That same year, Gould co-founded Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine, devoted to global, cutting-edge music and sound art, with Joseph Nechvatal and Carol Parkinson.

Gould was a curator and program coordinator for PS 1 (now MoMA PS1), in charge of their National and International Studio Program from 1984 to 1986. She was the American Curatorial Coordinator for Documenta 8 in 1987 and then served as curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University from 1988 through 1992. During her tenure at Wexner, exhibitions ranged from a one-person exhibition on Kiki Smith to In Black and White: Dress from the 1920s to Today, in an installation designed by French interior designer Andrée Putman.

Some of Gould’s independent curatorial projects include: the (1992) site-specific installation Kawamata Project on Roosevelt Island; a collaborative building project with artist Vito Acconci and architect Steven Holl at New York City’s Storefront for Art and Architecture(1993) and The Music Box Project, a commission of 17 music boxes by contemporary artists in collaboration with the 100-year-old Swiss music box company Reuge (1994).

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