Susan Fisher

Susan Fisher is Director of Collections at the Brooklyn Museum. From 2009-17, she was Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, the Greenwich Village historic townhouse and sculpture studio of American artist Chaim Gross (1904-91). She has previously served as the inaugural Horace W. Goldsmith Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and on the curatorial staff at the Guggenheim Museum.  The curator and author of Picasso and the Allure of Language (Yale University Press, 2009) and over a dozen articles, she has taught modern art history and museum studies at Fairfield University and Yale University and has lectured nationally and internationally on 19th-century and modern art. She holds a PhD and MA from Yale University and a BA from Oberlin College.

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2015-11-03

Center for Curatorial Leadership Announces 2016 Fellows

​ Center for Curatorial Leadership Announces Selection of Ninth Class of Curatorial Fellows Twelve Curators to Convene in 2016 for Five Months of Intensive Training   The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) has announced its ninth class of curatorial fellows, which includes twelve outstanding individuals from arts organizations in the ... Read More >

2016-06-03

Program Highlights | CCL 2016 Draws To A Close in NYC

Highlights from the Final Week of CCL 2016 The conclusion of the 2016 CCL program took place in New York during the final week of May. Twelve curators—some local, others from as far as Hong Kong, London, and Honolulu—joined CCL in the city for six days of business coursework, meetings ... Read More >

2017-03-02

Brooklyn Museum Appoints Susan Greenberg Fisher (CCL 2016) as Director of Collections

The Brooklyn Museum has appointed Susan Greenberg Fisher (CCL 2016) as Director of Collections at the Brooklyn Museum. In this newly created position, Fisher will be responsible for the care, study, and presentation of the Museum's extensive collection as well as acquisitions and long-term exhibitions across curatorial departments. Fisher participated in the 2016 CCL fellowship ... Read More >