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Lynn Zelevansky was born on 1947 in New York City, is an American art historian and curator (born 1947). Discover Lynn Zelevansky's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?
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Lynn Zelevansky (born 1947) is an American art historian and curator.
Formerly Henry Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, she is currently based in New York City.
She attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School through high school, graduating in 1965.
She met her future husband Paul Zelevansky during her first week at Carnegie Institute of Technology.
They married in 1968, but she transferred to Pratt Institute, where she graduated with a BFA in Photography in 1971.
Following graduation, she worked as a photographer and free-lance critic, reviewing photography and art exhibitions for various publications.
During this period, she also taught photography and criticism at Pratt, Cooper Union, and the New School.
In 1984, with two children (born in 1974 and 1977) at home, she began the graduate program at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, earning her MA in 1987, and later completing coursework towards her doctorate.
During her studies, Zelevansky co-curated exhibitions for Pratt Institute and Camerawork.
In 1986, Zelevansky joined MoMA's Department of Painting and Sculpture as a curatorial assistant and remained there until 1995.
While at MoMA, she assisted William Rubins on "Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism," for which she edited the second volume of the catalog, and on the Ad Reinhardt exhibition and assisted on exhibitions of the work of Vito Acconci, and Robert Ryman.
While working at MoMA (1987–1995), she curated “Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties” (1994), that institution's first all-female exhibition.
AICA awarded it "Best Emerging Art Exhibition New York."
Zelevansky was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Her father worked in the insurance and real estate business.
Zelevansky was awarded a 1995 Peter Norton Family Foundation Curator's Grant.
In 1995 Zelevansky became Assistant Curator in the department of Modern and Contemporary Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, eventually becoming the Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head, Contemporary Art
While at LACMA, she and Laura Hoptman co-curated the first US museum survey of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
In 1997, Zelevansky was the keynote speaker at Teachers College "Women in Arts and Culture"
During this period, she originated several group exhibitions such as "Longing and Memory" (1997), "Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form" (2004), and "Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea" (2009).
Michael Kimmelman called "Beyond Geometry" a "creative rethinking of the history of postwar vanguard art in the West" and AICA awarded it "Best Thematic Exhibition Nationally."
On the occasion of "Beyond Geometry," the J. Paul Getty Museum hosted the symposium "Structures and Systems: An Intercontinental Art World."
Zelevansky curated "Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama" (1998) and "Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form" (2004) for Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 1995 to 2009.
In 2009, Zelevansky became Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art.During her tenure at CMOA, she collaborated with Elisabeth Sussman on "Paul Thek: Diver" and together with Sussman and James Rondeau on "Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium".
Zelevansky oversaw the 2013 presentation of the Carnegie International, which highlighted the intersections of contemporary international art and activism and demonstrated the ways the Carnegie International (since 1896) had influenced its collection.
After leaving the Carnegie, Zelevansky returned to her native New York City to work as an independent art historian, writer, and curator.
She recently curated Leon Polk Smith: Harvest Moon for Lisson Gallery in New York and Art is Art and Everything Else is Everything Else at the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid.