Helaine Posner

Helaine Posner is Chief Curator Emerita at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, New York. Her exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum include Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden (2019), Louise Fishman: A Retrospective (2016), Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels (2011), and Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary(2010), each accompanied by a monographic catalogue. From 1991-1998, she was curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts where she curated such exhibitions as Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation (1998); Glenn Ligon: Skintight (1995); and Leon Golub and Nancy Spero: War and Memory(1994); among other projects. Previously, she was Director of the University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.She had Sue Scott Gallery from 2008-2012 and published monotypes with One Eye Pug.

Posner is the author of a monograph on the artist Kiki Smith and on architectural sculptor Donna Dennis (Monacelli, 2005 and 2023). She was United States Co-commissioner for the 48th Venice Biennale where she organized Ann Hamilton: Myein.

Posner is the co-author of the award-winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art and of
The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (Prestel, 2007 and 2013). She was curator of a mid-career survey of the work of Lorna Simpson which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Miami Art Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006-7).

Posner is the recipient of three AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Awards. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History at Georgetown University and a Master of Arts degree from George Washington University, both in Washington, D.C.