Lynne Cooke

Senior Curator, Special Projects in Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Lynne Cooke is senior curator at the National Gallery of Art, a role she has held since 2014. Prior to this, She held a two-year appointment as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, where her research focused on the interface between mainstream and self-taught art in the US in the 20th century. This appointment followed her time as the deputy director and chief curator at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain (2008–2012) and as curator at the Dia Art Foundation in New York City (1991–2008).

Cooke has organised major exhibitions for a number of notable artists, including Rosemarie Trockel, Blinky Palermo, Richard Serra, and Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Zoe Leonard. She also cocurated the 1991 Carnegie International exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

Lynne Cooke visited Vienna on a research trip in 2023.

Lynne Cooke. Photo: courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.