Jordana Pomeroy

Jordana Pomeroy
Jordana Pomeroy
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Museum director, author and former curator
Years active	1994-present
Known for	Director at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Title	Director and CEO of Currier Museum of Art
Academic background
Alma mater	Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University
Thesis	Collecting the past to create a future : the old masters, artists, and patrons in early nineteenth-century England (1996)
Academic work
Institutions	Currier Museum of Art

Jordana Pomeroy is an American Museum director, author and former curator. She is the Director and CEO of Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire. She served as the Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU from 2015 to 2024.

Early life and education

Pomeroy grew up in New York City. She is the daughter of architect Lee Harris Pomeroy and historian-professor Sarah B. Pomeroy.^[1] She developed an early appreciation for art and history through family trips, including visits to architectural works by Le Corbusier as well as ancient ruins.^[2]

Pomeroy later pursued B.A. in art history from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and earned her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University.^[3]

Career

Pomeroy started working as an intern at the Museum of Modern Art while she was in high school.^[4]

After graduate school, she worked at the National Museum of Women in the Arts as the chief curator, where she published notable catalogues including contemporary Scandinavian design and 16th century Renaissance art. Later, she became the Director at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art,^[5] teaching in the museum studies department. She has also taught in Georgetown University.^[3]^[4]

Pomeroy joined the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum as a director in January 2015.^[6] At the museum, she has co-curated multiple exhibitions, including Narciso Rodriguez: An Exercise in Minimalism and Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia.^[7]^[3]

Since September 2024, Pomeroy is the Director and CEO of Currier Museum of Art.^[8]^[9]

Selected works

Exhibitions

Some of her notable exhibitions includes,^[10]

An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum (2003)
Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers (2004)
Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (2007)
Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind (2010)^[11]
Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and other French National Collections (2012)^[12]^[13]

Published works

Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel^[14]^[15]
Italian Women Artists: From Renaissance to Baroque^[16]
An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum^[17]

References

^ Sandomir, Richard (25 February 2018). "Lee Harris Pomeroy, 85, Dies; Architect Revived Subway Stations". The New York Times.
^ Merril, Scott (August 21, 2024). "New Leaders You Should Know: Jordana Pomeroy". www.businessnhmagazine.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c Elman; Rinnhofer; Cheek (27 June 2017). "Jordana Pomeroy — Being Expansive at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum". Inspicio - Florida International University.
^ ^a ^b Dunseyar, Sarah (18 March 2015). "Profile: Jordana Pomeroy". Miami Today.
^ Miller, Robin. "Jordana Pomeroy leaves LSU Museum of Art for post in Florida". The Advocate.
^ "JORDANA POMEROY NAMED NEW DIRECTOR AT FIU FROST ART MUSEUM". Artforum.com.
^ Safronova, Valeriya (19 October 2016). "On Debate Night, Celebrating a Book About Immigrants". The New York Times.
^ Richardson, Olivia (21 May 2024). "New Currier Museum CEO wants to connect the Granite State through art". New Hampshire Public Radio.
^ "Currier Announces New Director/CEO". Currier Museum.
^ LICON, Adriana Gomez (November 27, 2021). "Bob Dylan artwork show to open in Miami". NY Daily News.
^ "Louisiana State University names Jordana Pomeroy Executive Director of Museum of Art". artdaily.cc.
^ Broude, Norma (1 September 2013). "Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections. Exhibition organized and on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 24 February 2012—29 July 2012, Jordana Pomeroy, Laura Auricchio, Melissa Lee Hyde, and Mary D. Sheriff". Early Modern Women. 8: 329–339. doi:10.1086/EMW23617859. ISSN 1933-0065.
^ Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly (2012). "Review of Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from The Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections". Woman's Art Journal. 33 (2): 62–64. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 24395299.
^
Reviews of Intrepid Women
- Faxon, Alicia Craig (2006). "Review of Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel". Woman's Art Journal. 27 (2): 40–41. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 20358090.
- PALMER, CAROLINE (2009). "Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century edited by Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland; Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel edited by Jordana Pomeroy; Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905 by Meaghan Clarke". Gender & History. 21 (2): 444–448. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01557_11.x.
- Dykes, Melissa. "Melissa Dykes's Review of Monica Anderson's Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914 and Jordana Pomeroy's Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel • Issue 3.3 • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies". Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
^ Rhodes, Kimberly (2009). "She's Leaving Home: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Women and the Visual Arts". Journal of Women's History. 21 (4): 205–212. doi:10.1353/jowh.0.0104. ISSN 1527-2036. S2CID 144434507.
^
Reviews of Italian Women Artists
- Quin, Sally (2008). "Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (review)". Parergon. 25 (1): 217–219. doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0048. ISSN 1832-8334. S2CID 143886338.
- Och, Marjorie (2007). "Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., March 16 through July 15, 2007". Early Modern Women. 2: 193–197. doi:10.1086/EMW23541482. ISSN 1933-0065. JSTOR 23541482.
- Poole, Katherine M. (2008). "Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque". Woman's Art Journal. 29 (1): 41–43. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 20358145.
^
Reviews of An Imperial Collection
- Hilton, Alison (2004). "Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum". Woman's Art Journal. 25 (2): 33–35. doi:10.2307/3566516. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 3566516.
- Mesropova, Olga (2004). "Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum". Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes. 46 (3/4): 515–516. ISSN 0008-5006. JSTOR 40860070.

[1] Sandomir, Richard (25 February 2018). "Lee Harris Pomeroy, 85, Dies; Architect Revived Subway Stations". The New York Times.

[2] Merril, Scott (August 21, 2024). "New Leaders You Should Know: Jordana Pomeroy". www.businessnhmagazine.com.

[Inspicio-3] Elman; Rinnhofer; Cheek (27 June 2017). "Jordana Pomeroy — Being Expansive at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum". Inspicio - Florida International University.

[MT-4] Dunseyar, Sarah (18 March 2015). "Profile: Jordana Pomeroy". Miami Today.

[5] Miller, Robin. "Jordana Pomeroy leaves LSU Museum of Art for post in Florida". The Advocate.

[6] "JORDANA POMEROY NAMED NEW DIRECTOR AT FIU FROST ART MUSEUM". Artforum.com.

[7] Safronova, Valeriya (19 October 2016). "On Debate Night, Celebrating a Book About Immigrants". The New York Times.

[8] Richardson, Olivia (21 May 2024). "New Currier Museum CEO wants to connect the Granite State through art". New Hampshire Public Radio.

[9] "Currier Announces New Director/CEO". Currier Museum.

[10] LICON, Adriana Gomez (November 27, 2021). "Bob Dylan artwork show to open in Miami". NY Daily News.

[11] "Louisiana State University names Jordana Pomeroy Executive Director of Museum of Art". artdaily.cc.

[12] Broude, Norma (1 September 2013). "Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections. Exhibition organized and on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 24 February 2012—29 July 2012, Jordana Pomeroy, Laura Auricchio, Melissa Lee Hyde, and Mary D. Sheriff". Early Modern Women. 8: 329–339. doi:10.1086/EMW23617859. ISSN 1933-0065.

[13] Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly (2012). "Review of Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from The Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections". Woman's Art Journal. 33 (2): 62–64. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 24395299.

[14] Reviews of Intrepid Women
Faxon, Alicia Craig (2006). "Review of Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel". Woman's Art Journal. 27 (2): 40–41. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 20358090.

PALMER, CAROLINE (2009). "Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century edited by Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland; Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel edited by Jordana Pomeroy; Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905 by Meaghan Clarke". Gender & History. 21 (2): 444–448. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01557_11.x.

Dykes, Melissa. "Melissa Dykes's Review of Monica Anderson's Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914 and Jordana Pomeroy's Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel • Issue 3.3 • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies". Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.

[15] Faxon, Alicia Craig (2006). "Review of Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel". Woman's Art Journal. 27 (2): 40–41. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 20358090.

[16] PALMER, CAROLINE (2009). "Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century edited by Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland; Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel edited by Jordana Pomeroy; Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905 by Meaghan Clarke". Gender & History. 21 (2): 444–448. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01557_11.x.

[17] Dykes, Melissa. "Melissa Dykes's Review of Monica Anderson's Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914 and Jordana Pomeroy's Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel • Issue 3.3 • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies". Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.

[15] Rhodes, Kimberly (2009). "She's Leaving Home: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Women and the Visual Arts". Journal of Women's History. 21 (4): 205–212. doi:10.1353/jowh.0.0104. ISSN 1527-2036. S2CID 144434507.

[16] Reviews of Italian Women Artists
Quin, Sally (2008). "Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (review)". Parergon. 25 (1): 217–219. doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0048. ISSN 1832-8334. S2CID 143886338.

Och, Marjorie (2007). "Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., March 16 through July 15, 2007". Early Modern Women. 2: 193–197. doi:10.1086/EMW23541482. ISSN 1933-0065. JSTOR 23541482.

Poole, Katherine M. (2008). "Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque". Woman's Art Journal. 29 (1): 41–43. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 20358145.

[20] Quin, Sally (2008). "Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (review)". Parergon. 25 (1): 217–219. doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0048. ISSN 1832-8334. S2CID 143886338.

[21] Och, Marjorie (2007). "Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., March 16 through July 15, 2007". Early Modern Women. 2: 193–197. doi:10.1086/EMW23541482. ISSN 1933-0065. JSTOR 23541482.

[22] Poole, Katherine M. (2008). "Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque". Woman's Art Journal. 29 (1): 41–43. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 20358145.

[17] Reviews of An Imperial Collection
Hilton, Alison (2004). "Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum". Woman's Art Journal. 25 (2): 33–35. doi:10.2307/3566516. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 3566516.

Mesropova, Olga (2004). "Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum". Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes. 46 (3/4): 515–516. ISSN 0008-5006. JSTOR 40860070.

[24] Hilton, Alison (2004). "Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum". Woman's Art Journal. 25 (2): 33–35. doi:10.2307/3566516. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 3566516.

[25] Mesropova, Olga (2004). "Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum". Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes. 46 (3/4): 515–516. ISSN 0008-5006. JSTOR 40860070.

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