Ann Temkin

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Full Name	Ann Temkin
Occupation	Art Historian
Date Of Birth	Dec 26, 1959(1959-12-26)
Age	65
Birthplace	Torrington
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Ann Temkin Biography

Ann Temkin is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on December 26, 1959 in Torrington, United States. Ann Temkin (born December 26 1959) is an American curator of art, and is she is currently the Marie-Josee as well as Henry Kravis Curator for Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 2003, following a stint over 13 years with MoMA for 13 years, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ann Temkin returned to working in the sculpture and painting department of MoMA. Temkin was appointed to be the Marie Josee as well as the Henry Kravis Curator for Painting and Sculpture in 2008. The first woman to be appointed to this position, which is considered to be one of to be the most highly regarded in modern art.

It was 1998 when Temkin got married in 1998 to American biophysicist and professor at the University, Wayne Hendrickson.

Ann Temkin Net Worth

Ann Temkin is one of the richest Art Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ann Temkin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The year was 1981 when Temkin was awarded an undergraduate degree at Harvard University. The following year, Temkin earned the Ph.D in art history at Yale University.

Following her doctoral degree, Temkin was appointed an assistant curator within the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA in 1984. In 1987, she began her work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art under director Anne d’Harnoncourt. After a time as the Acting Curator Ann was appointed as the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in 1990. She was involved in shows like Barnett Newman (2002), Alice Neel (2001), Constantin Brancusi (1995) as well as the exhibition Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys (1994). She has commissioned new work by artists such as Sherrie Levine, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Richard Hamilton for her “Museum Studies” series, which she designed herself. Temkin was also the architect responsible for the restoration to the contemporary and modern galleries of The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

As the Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture she was responsible for curating or co-curating exhibitions including: Picasso Sculpture (2015); Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor (2014), the artist’s first American retrospective; Jasper Johns: Regrets (2014); Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New (2013); Ellsworth Kelly: Chatham Series (2013); Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store and Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing (2013); Abstract Expressionist New York (2010); Gabriel Orozco (2009); and Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today (2008).

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Top Facts about Ann Temkin

1. Ann Temkin is a renowned American art curator.
2. She was born in 1959.
3. Temkin has worked at MoMA since 2003.
4. She curated the museum’s Abstract Expressionist exhibition in 2010.
5. Temkin organized the first comprehensive survey of Robert Gober’s work.
6. She co-curated MoMA’s major retrospective of Jasper Johns’ work in 2020.
7. Temkin has written extensively on modern and contemporary art.
8. She received her BA from Harvard University and her PhD from Yale University.
9. Temkin has been recognized with numerous awards for her contributions to the field of art curation.
10. Her exhibitions have been praised for their innovative approaches and insightful perspectives on contemporary art movements.