Victoria Sancho Lobis

Victoria Sancho Lobis recently joined Pomona College as the Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director of the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, which will open to the public in the fall of 2020. Lobis also serves as affiliated faculty in Pomona’s Art History Department. 

Prior to her work at the Benton, Lobis worked for the Art Institute of Chicago from 2013 through 2019 in a variety of curatorial and administrative roles, including her service as Interim Chair of the Department of Prints and Drawings from April 2016 through May 2017. In September of 2019, she completed a multi-year project related to the museum’s holdings of Dutch and Flemish drawings, culminating in a scholarly catalogue and exhibition of the same name (Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age). Before the Art Institute, Lobis worked for four years as the inaugural curator of the print collection at the University of San Diego. She has also held curatorial internships and fellowships at The J. Paul Getty Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Lobis received her B.A. from Yale College, her M.A. from Williams College, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she wrote her dissertation on workshop practice in the time of Peter Paul Rubens. She has curated and co-curated exhibitions across a broad geographical and historical range, including projects treating medieval manuscript illuminations, early modern prints and drawings, Viceregal Latin American painting, Whistler and his influence, modern and contemporary Latin American works on paper and contemporary American drawings. She has also published in the fields of contemporary artists’ books and contemporary American photography. 

Articles Related to Victoria Sancho Lobis

2017-11-01

Center for Curatorial Leadership Announces 2018 Fellows

Twelve Curators Selected for 2018 Leadership Training Program The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) has selected twelve curators to participate in its annual fellowship program for 2018. The incoming class of Fellows will join the organization in New York City in January for an initial two weeks of instruction, followed ... Read More >

2018-01-31

Program Highlights | 2018 Fellows Complete January Session of the CCL Fellowship

Highlights from the two-week January intensive of the Center for Curatorial Leadership annual leadership program This January, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) welcomed its eleventh class of Fellows for a two-week leadership intensive in New York City. A group of twelve curators from institutions across the United States convened ... Read More >

2018-05-24

Program Highlights | 2018 CCL Fellowship Wraps Up in Houston

The 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) Fellowship concluded this May with a weeklong intensive in Houston, Texas. Over the course of the final convening, the Fellows expanded on their lessons from the five-month period of the program and explored various models of museum leadership. Through Houston’s rich cultural landscape ... Read More >

2019-08-20

Nora Burnett Abrams (CCL 2018) Named Director of the MCA Denver

Congratulations to Nora Burnett Abrams (CCL 2018) on her appointment to the Mark G. Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver! Most recently the Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning, Abrams has been at the MCA Denver since 2010. She has curated 0ver 30 exhibitions while at the museum, including Tara ... Read More >

2020-01-02

Victoria Sancho Lobis (CCL 2018) Named Director of the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College

Victoria Sancho Lobis (CCL 2018) has been named Director of the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, which will open in the fall of 2020. Lobis comes to the Benton from The Art Institute of Chicago where she was the Prince Trust Curator in the Department of Prints and ... Read More >

2021-03-11

Lauren Haynes (CCL 2018) Named Senior Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Lauren Haynes (CCL 2018) has been named the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Senior Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art!  Since 2016, Lauren has served as the curator of contempoary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in addition to serving, since 2020, as the Director of ... Read More >