Pamela J. Joyner (born 1957/1958) is an American businesswoman and art collector, and has been called an "activist collector" by ''

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'', for her focus on African-American art from the 1940s onwards.

Early life and education

Joyner is the daughter of teacher Gloria O. Joyner and psychologist Lewis B. Joyner. She was raised in Chicago, Illinois, where her mother taught English at a Catholic high school, and her father taught history at a local junior college.Thornton, Sarah (December 7, 2016)
Collector and Museum Trustee Pamela Joyner's Singular Vision/
Cultured. Retrieved May 16, 2025. She attended the

University of Chicago Laboratory Schools The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (also known as Lab, Lab Schools, or U-High, abbreviated UCLS) is a private, co-educational, day pre-school and K-12 school affiliated with the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Almost half ...

.Smart Museum of Art (April 6, 2019)
Honoring Pamela Joyner: 2019 Shapiro Award Dinner.
Retrieved May 16, 2025. She earned a bachelor's degree from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

in 1979.Swan, Kristin (June 1, 2016)
Alumni Voices: Interview with Pamela Joyner, Dartmouth Class of 1979.
Hood Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2025. She received her MBA from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

Career

Joyner is the founding partner of Avid Partners, a San Francisco-based marketing firm providing consulting services for private equity and venture capital funds. She is the creator and co-founder of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, which was documented in “Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art,” edited by Courtney J. Martin. The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection was showcased at the

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in New Orleans, Louisiana, in October 2017. In 2019, the Smart Museum of Art honored her and the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art as part of the museum's annual Shapiro Award dinner and gala.

Boards and affiliations

Joyner serves and has served on leadership committees and boards for several prominent institutions. * Chair, Tate Americas Foundation * Board member, Art & Practice Foundation * Board member,

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park. Its collection, stewa ...

* Board member,

J. Paul Getty Trust The J. Paul Getty Trust is the world's wealthiest art institution, with an estimated endowment of US$7.7 billion in 2020. Based in Los Angeles, California, it operates the J. Paul Getty Museum, which has two locations—the Getty Center in the ...

Getty (February 13, 2017)
Pamela J. Joyner Joins Board of J. Paul Getty Trust.
Retrieved May 15, 2025. * Board member,

School of American Ballet The School of American Ballet (SAB) is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the age of six, with professional voc ...

* Board member,

MacDowell Colony MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The program was founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDo ...

* Director,

First Republic Bank First Republic Bank was a commercial bank and provider of wealth management services headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. It catered to high-net-worth individuals and operated 93 offices in 11 states, primarily in New Yor ...

and chair of its investment committee. * Member, Director’s Circle,

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...

* Member, Modern and Contemporary Art Visiting Committee,

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* Member, President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities * Member, Board of Overseers,

Hood Museum of Art The Hood Museum of Art is an art museum owned and operated by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The first reference to the development of an art collection at Dartmouth was in 1772, making the collection among the oldest and largest, a ...

/ Hopkins Center * Trustee,

and Chair of the Investment Committee * Trustee,

New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's fir ...

* Trustee and co-chair,

San Francisco Ballet San Francisco Ballet is the oldest ballet company in the United States, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the leadership of ballet master Adolph Bolm. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Fra ...

Association * Trustee, Asian Art Museum

Personal life

Joyner has a daughter with her first husband, Gary Love. The couple separated in 2001, and later divorced.Carter, Kelly E. (January 23, 2015)
Prolific Art Collector Pamela Joyner Is On A Global Mission.
Haute Living. Retrieved May 16, 2025. In September 2004, she married Alfred J. "Fred" Giuffrida in San Francisco.

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, who was then the Mayor of San Francisco, officiated their wedding.

References

External links

Conversations with Collectors: Pamela Joyner
''Frieze'', 30 January 2017 {{DEFAULTSORT:Joyner, Pamela Living people American art collectors 1950s births Dartmouth College alumni Harvard Business School alumni 21st-century African-American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople 20th-century African-American businesspeople