Paola morsiani biography of donald
I am a curator of contemporary art whose twenty years practice at leading art institutions has been fueled by a close association with living artists....
Paola Morsiani, the new director of the Neuberger Museum, says her role is “to find the courage to initiate new ideas based on new needs.”.
Paola Morsiani
Paola Morsiani was most recently director of Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College.
Morsiani received her Laurea in art history and history of criticism from the University of Padua in Italy, and an MA in Arts Administration from New York University.
In 2008, she participated in the Center for Curatorial Leadership fellowship and studied at Columbia University’s Executive Education Program. Early in her career, she worked in curatorial departments at the Drawing Center, New York; Queens Museum, New York; and at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
As Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, she curated a number of acclaimed exhibitions, including Andrea Zittel: Critical Space (2005, co-organized with Trevor Smith and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York), Fade In: New Film and Video (2004), When 1 is 2: The Art of Alighiero e Boetti (2002), and Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art (2001).
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