Dr. Leah Dickerman

Leah Dickerman leads one of the Museum of Modern Arts’s newest departments as the Director of Research Programs, building an infrastructure to support and strengthen the museum’s many scholarly activities and share insight and resources.

From 2018 to 2021, Dickerman was the Director of Editorial and Content Strategy and Co-Head of the Creative Team at MoMA, developing digital platforms and programs to carry content about art and ideas beyond the gallery walls, including launching the Museum’s online publication, Magazine. She has also had a long curatorial career at MoMA in the Department of Painting and Sculpture (2008 to 2018), and previously at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (2001 to 2007). She has organized notable, innovative multimedia exhibitions such as Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends; Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series; Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925; and Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity. She has served on the editorial board of the journal October since 2001.