Terrie Sultan (born 28 October 1952) is an American art historian and museum director. She is the director of the Parrish Art Museum in Long Island, New York (started 1 April 2008; she replaced 26-year veteran Trudy Kramer). Her previous position was at the University of Houston in Texas.
Sultan was raised in North Carolina. Her brother is the artist and printmaker Donald Sultan, based in Sag Harbor, New York.
She served in the Peace Corps, spending time in Apia, Samoa (1977).
She has served in senior positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (8 years). She has organized more than 40 exhibitions in her career, including Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space, and : Kissing the Wall, and Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration.
She married artist Christopher C. French in 1988.
Sultan has published over 40 items, including books: