Lynn Gumpert has been Director of Grey Art Gallery, New York University’s fine-arts museum, since 1997. She has overseen more than 50 exhibitions at Grey including Modern Iranian Art: Selections from the Abby Weed Grey Collection at NYU (2013); Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore (2012); Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970 (2012); Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya (2009); The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art (2008); The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984 (2006); and Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954–1968 (2004). Gumpert previously worked as a writer, consultant, and independent curator, organizing shows in New York, Japan, and France. From 1980 to 1988 she was curator and senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. She authored the first major monograph on French artist Christian Boltanski (Flammarion, 1992) and has contributed essays to numerous publications.