Matthew Drutt

Matthew Drutt
Occupation	Curator, editor, author
Language	English
Education	New York University
Alma mater	Yale University
Notable awards	Best Monographic Exhibition Organized Nationally

Matthew Drutt (born December 8, 1962) is an American editor, writer, and independent curator who specializes in modern and contemporary art. Based in New York, he currently works with the Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland, the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, and the M.T. Abraham Foundation, consulting on exhibitions, publications, and collections. In 2006, the French Government awarded him the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2003, his exhibition Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism won Best Monographic Exhibition Organized Nationally from the International Association of Art Critics.

Matthew Drutt was born on December 8, 1962 in Philadelphia, PA and is the son of Helen Williams Drutt, an educator, gallerist, and collector of international contemporary crafts. He received his B.A. cum laude from New York University in 1986 with a double major in History of Art and Russian Studies, and earned an M.A. from Yale University in 1987.

From 1993 to 2001, he was a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where he organized shows such as Amazons of the Avant-Garde,The Art of the Motorcycle in 1998, Mediascape in 1996, Josef Albers in 1995, and Frank Lloyd Wright in 1994. He was chief curator for The Menil Collection in Houston from 2001 to 2006, where he organized exhibitions of Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Olafur Eliasson, Donald Judd, Anna Gaskell, and Vik Muniz, as well as collection-based projects.

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