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Director and Chief Curator

Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Arts and Sciences, but working closely with the Department of Art History and Archaeology, the School of the Arts, and Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, the Director and Chief Curator directs the activities and operations of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and contributes to Columbia’s historical, critical, and creative engagement in the visual arts. Serving as both a laboratory and a forum, The Wallach Art Gallery offers opportunities for curatorial practice and discourse, while bridging the diverse approaches to the arts at the University with a welcome broader public. The Wallach present projects organized by graduate students and faculty in Art History & Archaeology or by other Columbia scholars, as well as projects focusing on the contemporary artists of the campus and its broader communities or offering new scholarship on University special collections. Established in 1986, The Wallach Art Gallery is the University’s premier visual arts space, a platform for critically acclaimed exhibitions, a dynamic range of programming, and publications that contribute to scholarship. The Wallach Art Gallery also animates other university spaces as opportunities arise.

The Wallach Art Gallery operates within the new Lenfest Center for the Arts on Columbia University’s rising Manhattanville campus. As such, the Wallach is now a vital link between the University and much broader public and art-going communities. The Wallach presents 2-3 major exhibitions each year in its Galleries that involve and engage its core constituencies, and it closes each academic year with the MODA Curates, MFA First-Year, and MFA Thesis student exhibitions. The incumbent oversees and guides these projects, collaborating with faculty and student guest curators. The Wallach currently has annual projects that the incumbent oversees in other Columbia campus lobby spaces, and the Gallery occasionally travels exhibitions. The Wallach presents an active slate of public and educational programming, and produces scholarly catalogues when appropriate.

The incumbent leads a Governance Committee (for matters of finance and policy) and an advisory Steering Committee (for programmatic planning).

For more information about this position and to apply, please visit: https://jobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=171559

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University
615 West 129th Street
wallach.columbia.edu