Ann Temkin is the Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.
Education:
BA Harvard University
Ph.D. Yale University
Background:
Temkin was appointed The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA in 2003. Ms. Temkin began her career as a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA from 1984 until 1987. She then joined the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she was the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art from 1990 until 2003. Her exhibitions and catalogues there include Barnett Newman (2002), Alice Neel (2000-2001), Raymond Pettibon (co-curator, 1998), Joseph Cornell/ Marcel Duchamp ... in resonance (co-curator, 1998), Constantin Brancusi (co-curator, 1995), and Thinking is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys (co-curator, 1993). Ms. Temkin also initiated the series “Museum Studies,” commissioning new work by artists including Sherrie Levine, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Richard Hamilton. She directed the renovation of the modern and contemporary galleries at PMA and edited and co-authored the accompanying book Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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