Lisa Cakmak
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Chair and Curator, Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium
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Lisa Ayla Çakmak is the Chair and Curator of the Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since coming to Chicago in 2020, Çakmak has overseen the department’s first major acquisitions in five years, and she has initiated a major long-term reinstallation of the Art Institute’s Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, in addition to serving as a mentor of the museum’s recently-formed Curatorial Mentoring Program. Prior to Chicago, Çakmak spent nearly a decade at the Saint Louis Art Museum, most recently as the Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Ancient Art where she was responsible for the collections of Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art. During her tenure in St. Louis, she initiated and realized the highly successful 2018 exhibition Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds, as well as managing the reinstallations of the museum’s galleries of Greek, and Roman art, and the Egyptian and Numismatic collections. Since 2014, she has served as the Chair of the Museums and Exhibitions Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America. Çakmak earned her PhD from the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan and attended Princeton University. In 2017 she completed an MBA at Washington University in St. Louis.
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