Ian Alteveer

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Curator

Ian Alteveer is the Aaron I. Fleischman Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to this, he was a graduate curatorial fellow and curatorial assistant at New York University's Grey Art Gallery. Recent projects include retrospectives for Kerry James Marshall (2016), Marisa Merz (2017), David Hockney (2017) and Vija Celmins (2019), as well as the exhibition Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy (2018) and the installation Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room (2021). He also organised three Roof Garden Commissions at the museum for Pierre Huyghe (2015), Dan Graham (2014), and Imran Qureshi (2013), as well as the installation of William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time (2013).  Alteveer is a graduate of Stanford University and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. He serves on the board of Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado, and the New York-based artist grant-maker Artadia, and was a 2020 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

Ian Alteveer was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2019.

Ian Alteveer. Photo: Lorelai Robideaux.