Graham Boettcher

Graham C. Boettcher is Deputy Director and The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, where he has worked since 2006, and was Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow of American Art until 2008. He was previously a curatorial fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery, and has held research fellowships at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Terra Foundation Summer Residency in Giverny, France. Boettcher recently curated The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection (2012), for which he edited and contributed to a major publication by the same name. He is currently working on an exhibition exploring the Viking Revival in American art. Boettcher received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and an M.A. from the University of Washington in his home state. He has served as a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Curators since 2010.

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2013-11-07

CCL Announces 2014 Fellows

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) named its 2014 class of Fellows, recognizing twelve art museum curators with a track record of exceptional work and the potential for even more significant contributions as future leaders in the field. This is the seventh class of CCL Fellows and the largest to date with individuals ... Read More >

2016-10-11

Curatorial Chat | Eva Respini on rethinking the promise of a ‘contemporary’ collection

  Eva Respini began as the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) in March 2015. Since then, she has been mounting an ambitious program of temporary exhibitions alongside installations drawn from the ICA’s growing permanent collection. Respini’s current exhibition, First Light: A Decade of Collecting ... Read More >

2018-04-30

Curatorial Chat | Zoë Ryan at the helm of the Art Institute’s architecture and design department

Zoë Ryan joined the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 as the inaugural Neville Bryan Curator of Design, and in 2011 was named chair of the Department of Architecture and Design. Ryan’s tenure marked an expanded scope for the museum and its collection with the introduction of design to the ... Read More >

2017-09-19

Graham Boettcher (CCL 2014) named R. Hugh Daniel Director, Birmingham Museum of Art

Graham Boettcher (CCL 2014) has been named the next R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Graham joined the museum in 2006 as Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow of American Art and served most recently as Deputy Director and The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art. Following an ... Read More >

2016-02-09

Birmingham Museum of Art Names Graham Boettcher (CCL Class of 2014) Deputy Director

Graham Boettcher (CCL Class of 2014) has been promoted to Deputy Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Since joining the museum ten years ago, Graham has stewarded its impressive collection of American art and overseen the curatorial affairs of the museum as Chief Curator. Birmingham Museum of Art’s director Gail ... Read More >

2020-01-02

Catherine Futter (CCL 2014) Named Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at the Brooklyn Museum

Catherine Futter (CCL 2014) has been named Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at the Brooklyn Museum. Futter joins the Brooklyn Museum from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art where she has been a member of the curatorial staff since 2002, first as the Helen Jane and R. Hugh “Pat” Uhlmann Curator ... Read More >

2020-08-25

Zoë Ryan (CCL 2014) named Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania

Zoë Ryan (CCL 2014) has been named Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.  Zoë will join the ICA in November following 14 years at the Art Institute of Chicago, most recently serving as the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design. A curator ... Read More >