Leah Dickerman

Who is Leah Dickerman?

Leah Dickerman is a Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and has held this position since 2008. Before coming to MoMA, Ms. Dickerman was Acting Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Associate Curator in modern and contemporary art at the NGA. Over the course of her career, Dickerman has organized or co-organized a series of exhibitions including Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925, Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art, Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity, Dada, and Aleksandr Rodchenko.

Dickerman serves on the editorial board of the journal October and has written extensively on European art between the two World Wars. She was Assistant Professor of Art History at Stanford University from 1997–2000, and has also taught at Princeton University, Columbia University and the University of Delaware. She was the David E. Finley fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.