Joachim Pissarro

Pissarro's dissertation was entitled: "Individualism and inter-subjectivity in modernism: two case studies of artistic interchanges. Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) and Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) : Robert Rauschenberg (1925– ) and Jasper Johns (1930– )".

Joachim Pissarro (born 1959) is an art historian, theoretician, curator, educator, and director of the Hunter College Galleries and Bershad Professor of Art History at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

His latest book, authored with art critic David Carrier, is called Wild Art.

In 1983, Pissarro began working on the Catalogue Raisonné of Camille Pissarro under John Rewald.

In 1984, Pissarro was the director of Impressionist modern paintings and sculptures for Phillips Auction House in London.

He founded the department of modern Impressionist painting in the department of New York.

Between receiving his Masters and his Ph.D, Pissarro began his teaching career as a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.

During this time, he also started his career as a curator, being an independent curator at institutions such as the Dallas Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Royal Academy, London.

From 1988 to 1993, he was an independent curator with the Dallas Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Royal Academy of London.

In 1994, Pissarro was named chief curator of the Kimbell Museum of Art in Fort Worth, Texas.

Pissarro served as Chief Curator at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX from 1994 to 1997.

While at the Kimbell, Pissarro curated Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry with Yve-Alain Bois.

From 1997 to 2000, Pissarro served as the Seymour H. Knox Jr. Curator of European and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and was adjunct professor in the Department of the History of Art.

From 1997 to 2000, Pissarro served as the Seymour H. Knox Jr. Curator of European and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and was adjunct professor in the Department of the History of Art.

Pissarro supervised the first reinstallation of the modern and contemporary collection at the Yale University Art Gallery and focused on the recent history of the Yale School of Art, leading to an exhibition entitled Then and Now and Later (co-curated with Thomas Crow, 1998).

The exhibit featured the art of Yale alumni including Dawoud Bey, Gregory Crewdson, John Currin, Ann Hamilton, Roni Horn, Abelardo Morell, Jessica Stockholder, Peter Wegner, and Lisa Yuskavage.

In 1999 he worked as a visiting lecturer at Sydney University and Melbourne University and ran a seminar on the Asia-Pacific Triennial at the Brisbane Art Gallery.

In 1999 he worked as a visiting lecturer at Sydney University and Melbourne University and ran a seminar on the Asia-Pacific Triennial at the Brisbane Art Gallery.

In 2000, Pissarro began working in New York City as a member of the Advisory Committee on Archives, Library, and Research at the Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibits curated while at Yale include Jasper Johns Recent Paintings (with Richard Field and Gary Garrels, 2000); After looking at Chinese Rocks: Brice Marden: Work in Progress (1999); and Post-Modern Transgressions (1999).

Pissarro has had an extensive career as a curator.

He has worked for both internationally acclaimed museums and as a self-employed research consultant.

He frequently works with contemporary artists, but also draws much inspiration from impressionist artists such as Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, and his great-grandfather.

Exhibits curated while at Yale include Jasper Johns Recent Paintings (with Richard Field and Gary Garrels, 2000); After looking at Chinese Rocks: Brice Marden: Work in Progress (1999); and Post-Modern Transgressions (1999).

In 2001, he received his Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin in History of Art.

Since 2002, Pissarro has been a professor at Hunter College in New York City, where he was a Bershad Professor of Art History, and Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries until 2022.

He continues to serve as a thesis advisor.

Pissarro was curator at the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Painting and Sculpture from 2003 to 2007.

Pissarro was born in Caen.

He is the great-grandson of impressionist painter Camille Pissarro.

He spent much of his childhood in Suisse Normande with his grandparents surrounded by art and artists.

Pissarro studied Philosophy at the Sorbonne and graduated with a M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

In 2003, he became curator of the MoMA’s Painting and Sculpture department.

He has been an adjunct curator at the MoMA since 2007.

Based in New York City for most of his career, Pissarro’s reputation as a highly esteemed art historian has allowed him to work with artists all over the world, contemporary and classical.

He continues to work as an independent curator and research consultant.

In 2023, Pissarro was named the Cultural Attache of France’s Normandy region.

Pissarro has a teaching career that spans over 35 years, and one that has taken him all over the globe.

He has taught History of Art at Yeshiva University; University of Texas (Austin); Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia; Melbourne University; and Yale University.

He also regularly travels the world to speak and lecture at various Art institutions.