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29.06.2010
MIAMI ART MUSEUM NAMES THOMAS COLLINS AS DIRECTOR
Miami – June 18, 2010 – Thomas Collins, an arts administrator, art historian, educator and author with more than 15 years of experience serving as a director and curator at several of America’s top museums, has been named as the new director of Miami Art Museum (MAM). Collins will join MAM after serving for five years as director of the Neuberger Museum of Art in Westchester County, New York. Collins’ appointment comes just as MAM begins to transition into a new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building located in downtown Miami’s Museum Park. Groundbreaking on the project is scheduled to take place in late 2010, with the museum´s opening set for 2013.
Collins will begin his tenure as director on August 16, 2010. He succeeds John Wetenhall, who has served as interim director of MAM since December 2009 when Terence Riley abruptly resigned.
Prior to becoming director of the Neuberger Museum of Art in 2005, Collins served as director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Md., from 2003 to 2005. From 2000-2003, he was chief curator at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior roles include associate curator at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Wash., and Newhall Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Past exhibitions curated by Collins include Andy Warhol: Pop Politics (Neuberger, 2009); Loop, a multimedia exhibition that explored new critical and popular understandings of time as they have been influenced by science and technology (CAC, 2002); New Photography: Richard Billingham, Thomas Demand, Osamu Kanemura, Sophie Ristelhueber, Georgina Starr, Wolfgang Tillmans (MoMA, 1996).
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