Marta Kuzma (born June 21, 1964) is a curator, art theorist, and educator. In 2016, she became Dean of the

Yale School of Art The Yale School of Art is the art school of Yale University. Founded in 1869 as the first professional fine arts school in the United States, it grants Master of Fine Arts, Masters of Fine Arts degrees to students completing a two-year course in g ...

and is the first woman to serve in that role since the school was founded in 1869.

Biography

Marta Kuzman holds a B.A. in Art History and Political Economics from Barnard College and an M.A. in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London.

Academic career

She was previously the vice chancellor and rector of the Stockholm

Royal Institute of Art The Royal Institute of Art () founded in 1735 is an institution in Stockholm, Sweden for higher education in art.Venice Biennial The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), ...

with the projects "The Collectors: Elmgreen & Dragset" (2009), "The State of Things" (2011), and "Beware of the Holy Whore: Munch and the Dilemma of Emancipation" (2013). She was also the founding director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, Ukraine, the artistic director of the Washington Project for the Arts, in Washington, D.C., and was head of international exhibitions program at

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in New York. In 2004, she co-curated

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with

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in San Sebastian, Spain and in 2012 and she was a curator for

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuzma, Marta 1964 births Living people Yale University faculty American art historians American women art historians American art curators American women curators Barnard College alumni American women academics 21st-century American women Academic staff of the Royal Institute of Art