Glenn D. Lowry

Glenn David Lowry (born September 28, 1954) is an American art historian and director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City since 1995. His initiatives there include strengthening MoMA's contemporary art program and guiding a $900 million capital campaign for the renovation, expansion, and endowment of the Museum. He has lectured and written extensively in support of contemporary art and artists and the role of museums in society, among other topics.

Lowry was born in 1954 in New York City and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Holderness School in 1972 and later received a B.A. degree (1976) magna cum laude from Williams College, Williamstown, and M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) degree in the history of art from Harvard University.

Lowry began his career in 1983 as the first director of the Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary; he later became curator of Near Eastern Art at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art (1984–90). He was director of the Art Gallery of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.

In February 1999, Lowry and Alanna Heiss, former director of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, initiated the merger of their two organizations.

Lowry is a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and a former board member of Judd Foundation. He is a member of the Williams College Board of Trustees, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and serves on the advisory council of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He is also a Steering Committee Member for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. In 2004, the French government honored Lowry with the title of Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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