Paula Marincola

Paula Marincola is executive director of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a contemporary art curator and critic. She was named one of the city’s most influential and innovative people by Philadelphia Magazine (in 2014 and 2016, respectively).

Marincola was born in Philadelphia and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in art history of Syracuse University. From 1979 to 1985, she was a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, organizing Photography: Made in Philadelphia (1980–81), Street Sights (1981), Red Grooms’s Philadelphia Cornucopia and other Sculpto-pictoramas (1982), and Image Scavengers with Douglas Crimp (1982), among other exhibitions. She was a contributing critic to Artforum in the 1980s. From 1988 to 1997, Marincola was director of the Beaver College Art Gallery (now Arcadia University Art Gallery), where she organized solo exhibitions for Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mary Heilmann, Tom Nozkowski, Glenn Ligon and Gary Simmons, Yukinori Yanagi, Richard Prince, Kenneth Price, Fred Wilson, and Jennifer Bolande, among other artists.

In 1997, Marincola was named founding director of the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI), a program of The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Established in response to a Pew study of the regional art community’s needs and priorities, PEI was designed to support innovative art exhibitions of “high artistic caliber and cultural significance” in the five-county Philadelphia region, as well as accompanying catalogues. Along with these large grants, PEI was also renowned for its annual curatorial roundtables, its travel grants for local curators to visit exhibitions around the world, and its small research library of international catalogues and DVDs.

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