I am an art historian and curator with twenty years of experience working with museums, artist foundations, and publishers to combine fresh scholarship with inclusive public engagement.

My area of specialization is modern American art, with a particular focus on early twentieth-century modernism, postwar painting, and the history of photography. As an independent consultant and former museum staff member, I offer expertise in organizing exhibitions, writing for exhibition and gallery catalogues, producing didactics and leading educational programs, and growing and overseeing collections. Advancing discovery and dialogue among art’s many audiences inspires me—and is the driving force of my work.

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  • B.A., Princeton University, Art and Archeology, summa cum laude

    M.A., Columbia University, Modern Art and Critical Studies

    Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Art History

    Academic awards:

    Dissertation Year Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2018

    Gutmann Foundation Fellowship, Columbia University, 2004

    Art and Archeology Prize for the Most Outstanding Senior Thesis, Princeton University, 2000

  • For the past twelve years, I have worked independently as a curatorial consultant and art writer. Previously, I worked for eight years in curatorial roles and other capacities at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

  • Services: writing for catalogues, exhibition didactics, teaching, curatorial consulting.

    Past clients: the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the New York Historical Society; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of the City of New York; the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation; and Rizzoli New York.

  • Lecturer, “The Collection in Context,” training course for Whitney Museum docents, Grace Church School, New York, September 2019.

    “’One hand in the dishpan, the other in the darkroom:’ Motherhood and Modernism in Imogen Cunningham’s Portraits, 1917-1925,” Feminist Art History Conference, American University, Washington DC, September 30, 2018.

    “Modernist Motherhood: Imogen Cunningham’s Family Portraits, 1918-1925.” Southeastern College Art Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 26, 2017.

    “California Dreamers: Avant-Garde Self-Fashioning in the Early Portraits of Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston.” Southwest Art History Conference, Taos, New Mexico, October 14, 2016.

    “Horace Pippin’s Abe Lincoln: The Great Emancipator.” Race and the Museum: Mellon-Marron Research Consortium, Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 12, 2016.

    “John Steuart Curry, Baptism in Kansas.” Whitney Museum, July 8, 2015.

    Lecturer, “The Collection in Context,” training course for Whitney Museum docents, Avenues School, New York, October 2014-January 2015.

    “Truth, Friendship, and Love: Robert Indiana’s Hartley Elegies.” McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, March 3, 2014.

    “Insider Focus: Georgia O’Keeffe and Jay DeFeo,” Whitney Museum, May 15 and June 1, 2013.

    “Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and the Founding of the Whitney Museum,” Whitney Museum education lecture at the New York Studio School, April 13, 2013.

    “The Soyer Brothers, Chaim Gross, and the Early Years of the Whitney Museum, 1920-40.” Chaim Gross Foundation, New York, May 19, 2010.

    “The Early Whitney Museum and the Birth of an American Aesthetic.” Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany, November 20, 2008.