Jordana Pomeroy

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Jordana Pomeroy
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Museum director, author and former curator
Known forDirector at the
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum
Academic background
Alma materBryn Mawr College, Columbia University
ThesisCollecting the past to create a future : the old masters, artists, and patrons in early nineteenth-century England (1996)

Jordana Pomeroy is an American

Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami
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Early life and education

Pomeroy is the daughter of architect Lee Harris Pomeroy and professor Sarah B. Pomeroy.[1]

She grew up in New York City. She received her B.A. in art history from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and earned her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University.[2]

Career

Pomeroy started working as an intern at the Museum of Modern Art while she was in high school.[3]

After graduate school, she worked at the National Museum of Women in the Arts as the chief curator, where she published notable catalogues including contemporary Scandinavian design and 16th century Renaissance art. Later, she became the Director at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art,[4] teaching in the museum studies department. She has also taught in Georgetown University.[2][3]

Pomeroy joined the

Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum as a director in January 2015.[5] At the museum, she has co-curated multiple exhibitions, including Narciso Rodriguez: An Exercise in Minimalism and Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia.[6][2]

Selected works

Exhibitions

Some of her notable exhibitions includes,[7]

  • An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum (2003)
  • Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers (2004)
  • Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (2007)
  • Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind (2010)[8]
  • Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and other French National Collections (2012)[9][10]

Published works

  • Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel[11][12]
  • Italian Women Artists: From Renaissance to Baroque[13]
  • An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum[14]

References

  1. ^ Sandomir, Richard (25 February 2018). "Lee Harris Pomeroy, 85, Dies; Architect Revived Subway Stations". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b c Elman; Rinnhofer; Cheek (27 June 2017). "Jordana Pomeroy — Being Expansive at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum". Inspicio - Florida International University.
  3. ^ a b Dunseyar, Sarah (18 March 2015). "Profile: Jordana Pomeroy". Miami Today.
  4. ^ Miller, Robin. "Jordana Pomeroy leaves LSU Museum of Art for post in Florida". The Advocate.
  5. ^ "JORDANA POMEROY NAMED NEW DIRECTOR AT FIU FROST ART MUSEUM". Artforum.com.
  6. ^ Safronova, Valeriya (19 October 2016). "On Debate Night, Celebrating a Book About Immigrants". The New York Times.
  7. NY Daily News
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  8. ^ "Louisiana State University names Jordana Pomeroy Executive Director of Museum of Art". artdaily.cc.
  9. ISSN 1933-0065
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  11. ^ Reviews of Intrepid Women
  12. S2CID 144434507
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  13. ^ Reviews of Italian Women Artists
  14. ^ Reviews of An Imperial Collection