Marta Kuzma | |
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Born | June 21, 1964 New Jersey |
Known for | Dean of Yale School of Art |
Marta Kuzma (born June 21, 1964) is a curator, art theorist, and educator. In 2016, she became Dean of the Yale School of Art and is the first woman to serve in that role since the school was founded in 1869. She was previously the vice chancellor and rector of the Royal Institute of Art in since 2014. Kuzma also served as director of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, was the founding director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kiev, Ukraine, the artistic director of the Washington Project for the Arts, in Washington, D.C., and was head of international exhibitions program at International Center of Photography in New York. In 2004, she co-curated Manifesta 5 with Massimilano Gioni in San Sebastian, Spain and in 2012 and she was a curator for dOCUMENTA (13). She holds a B.A. in Art History and Political Economics from Barnard College and an M.A. in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London.