Matthew McLendon

Matthew McLendon
Occupation	Director and Chief Curator, Fralin Museum of Art

Matthew McLendon (born 1977) is an American museum director, art historian, and curator of modern and contemporary art. McLendon was appointed director and chief curator of the Frallin Museum of Art in November 2016.

Florida native McLendon grew up in Palatka in the northeast part of the state. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Florida State University, McLendon earned Bachelors degrees with honors in both music and art history. While at FSU, McLendon was appointed to the first internship in the Department of Education and Public Programming at the Tate Gallery London. He completed his MA and PhD studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and is an alumnus of the 64th Attingham Summer School. His master's thesis was focused on the war works of Wyndham Lewis and his dissertation on the manifestos of the Italian Futurists of the early 20th century.

McLendon was named Interim Curator of Adult Learning at Tate Britain in 2002, where he was responsible for public programming related to the Turner Prize awarded to Keith Tyson. After returning to the United States, he was named the inaugural Curator of Academic Initiatives at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, where he worked on exhibitions serving both collegiate and community audiences including Michael Phillips and the Infernal Method of William Blake (2009), and Andy Warhol: Personalities (2010)

In 2010, McLendon was recruited by The Ringling to reinvigorate its modern and contemporary programs, after a fifteen year gap in curatorial leadership. In the first two years of his tenure, McLendon oversaw the permanent installation of Joseph's Coat, the largest Skyspace by James Turrell to date, as well as three exhibitions from the museum's permanent collection and two major exhibitions focused on living artists.

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