David Pullins

David Pullins is the Jayne Wrightsman Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art where he is responsible for French, Italian, and Spanish paintings from 1600 to 1800. Recent projects at The Met include Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez (2023), co-curated with Arturo Schomburg scholar Vanessa K. Valdés; Iba N’Diaye: Between Latitude and Longitude(2025), co-curated with Alisa LaGamma for the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing; and Look Again: European Paintings, 1300-1800 (2024), a reinstallation of some 700 works of art from the permanent collection over forty-five renovated galleries.

From 2017-2019 Pullins was assistant curator of French painting at The Frick Collection and from 2016-2017 visiting lecturer at MIT. He studied art history at Columbia University (BA ‘05), the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA ‘06), and Harvard University (PhD ‘16) during which time he was the David E. Finley Fellow (2012-2015) at the Center for Advanced Studies (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. His latest monograph, The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher, was published in 2024 by the Getty Research Institute.

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Center for Curatorial Leadership Announces 2025 Fellows

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to introduce the 2025 cohort of Fellows. Now in its eighteenth year, the CCL Fellowship is the preeminent leadership program for curators, providing them with the skills and tools needed to become visionary leaders of art museums and cultural institutions worldwide. This year, ... Read More >