The Museum of Modern Art Leadership

James Gara is a Trustee at Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Chief Operating Officer at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Trustee at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He studied at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and City University.

Ann Temkin assumed the role of Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture in 2008, after joining The Museum of Modern Art in 2003 as Curator. During her tenure, Ms. Temkin has focused on reimagining the Museum’s collection galleries, and on the acquisitions program of the Department of Painting and Sculpture. Under her leadership, the acquisitions program has strengthened the holdings of landmark work by modern artists whom the Museum collects in depth, widened its breadth with works by historical artists new to the department’s collection, especially women, artists of African descent, and artists working outside of Europe and North America, and collected actively from the new generation of artists working today.

Ms. Temkin is organizing an exhibition of the work of Donald Judd that will open in March 2020. She is the curator or co-curator of the exhibitions Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund (2018), Picasso Sculpture (2015), Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor (2014), 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). She is currently preparing a multi-authored anthology of essays entitled Women at MoMA: The First Generation.

From 1990 to 2003, Ms. Temkin was the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her exhibitions there included Barnett Newman (2002), Alice Neel (2001), Constantin Brancusi (1995), and Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys (1994), as well as a series of contemporary projects titled Museum Studies. Ms. Temkin is an ex-officio Trustee at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and a member of the California Institute of the Arts Board of Overseers. She was born in Connecticut, and received her BA magna cum laude from Harvard University and her PhD in the history of art from Yale University.

Christophe Cherix was appointed The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in 2013. His appointment followed a reorganization that merged the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, of which Mr. Cherix had been Chief Curator since 2010, with the Department of Drawings. He joined the Museum’s curatorial staff in July 2007, after serving as curator of the Cabinet des Estampes at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva. His specialty is modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on the art of the 1960s and 1970s.

At MoMA, Mr. Cherix’s exhibitions include Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971 (with Klaus Biesenbach, 2015), Jasper Johns: Regrets (with Ann Temkin, 2014), Print/Out (2012), Contemporary Art from the Collection (with Kathy Halbreich, 2010), In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976 (2009), Fluxus Preview: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift (with Jon Hendricks, 2009), Projects 88: Lucy McKenzie (2008), and Book/Shelf (2008).

He has been instrumental in the Museum’s recent acquisitions of the Herman and Nicole Daled Collection and Archives, the Seth Siegelaub Collection and Archives, and the Art & Project/Depot VBVR Collection, and has also worked extensively with the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection and Archives, which together have redefined the Museum’s collection of Conceptual art.

Among his past projects are surveys of Henri Matisse’s prints, Carl Andre’s poetry, and Barry Le Va’s scrapbooks. In 2003, he was the commissioner of the 25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts, in Slovenia, where he featured artists’ books and printed materials. Mr. Cherix’s publications include the catalogue accompanying In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976, and the catalogues raisonnés of prints by Henri Michaux (with Rainer Michael Mason) and Robert Morris.

Mr. Cherix was born in Switzerland and received a License ès lettres from the University of Geneva. He was a Fellow of the Class of 2010 at the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York, which included a residency at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Clément Chéroux is a The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Diana Pan is a Chief Technology Officer at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and is based in Greater New York City Area, United States. She has worked as Technology Director at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Remedy Interactive, and Vice President of Technology Services at New Madison Ave. Diana attended Columbia University.

Jan Postma is a Chief Financial Officer at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and is based in Greater New York City Area. He has worked as Manager of Finance at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); Director of Finance at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); and Investment Banking Analyst at MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.. Jan attended Williams College between 1995 and 1999 and Harvard Business School between 2003 and 2005.