Lynn Zelevansky

Lynn Zelevansky became the Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art in 2009. Since then, she has instituted a variety of new participatory and experimental programs at CMOA, some under the auspices of the new Hillman Photography Initiative, and overseen the successful 2013 Carnegie International. In 2010-11, she co-organized the exhibition Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, which won an International Association of Art Critics (AICA) award. Previously, she was the Terri and Michael Smooke curator and department head, contemporary art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Among the many exhibitions she organized or co-organized there were Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea (2009), Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s – 70s (2004), and Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-68 (1998). Prior to arriving in Los Angeles in 1995, Zelevansky was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York where she organized Projects shows for artists such as Gabriel Orozco (1993) and Cildo Meireles (1990), and curated Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties (1994). Zelevansky, who has published widely on modern and contemporary art, writes a series, Inside the Museum, for the CMOA Blog. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

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