Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Jodi Hauptman is Senior Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art. Her many exhibitions and publications include Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty (2016); Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (with Karl Buchberg, Senior Conservator) (2014–15); Georges Seurat: The Drawings (2007–08); and Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon (2005–06). Hauptman has lectured widely and has contributed essays to exhibition catalogues, edited volumes, and scholarly journals on modern and contemporary artists, including Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Fernand Léger, Medardo Rosso, and Léopold Survage. She oversaw The Museum of Modern Art’s multi-exhibition partnerships with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, and organized MoMA’s first exhibition in China. Hauptman is the author of Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema (Yale University Press, 1999), winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Charles Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art. She has taught at Princeton University, Yale University, and the University of Delaware. Hauptman received her A.B. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. from Yale University.
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >