Jordana Pomeroy Explained

Jordana Pomeroy
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University
Thesis Title:	Collecting the past to create a future : the old masters, artists, and patrons in early nineteenth-century England
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:	1996
Occupation:	Museum director, author and former curator
Known For:	Director at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum

Jordana Pomeroy is an American Museum director, author and former curator. She is the director of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami.

Early life and education

Pomeroy is the daughter of architect Lee Harris Pomeroy and professor Sarah B. Pomeroy.^[1]

She grew up in New York City. She received her B.A. in art history from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and earned her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University.^[2]

Career

Pomeroy started working as an intern at the Museum of Modern Art while she was in high school.^[3]

After graduate school, she worked at the National Museum of Women in the Arts as the chief curator, where she published notable catalogues including contemporary Scandinavian design and 16th century Renaissance art. Later, she became the Director at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art,^[4] teaching in the museum studies department. She has also taught in Georgetown University.

Pomeroy joined the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum as a director in January 2015.^[5] At the museum, she has co-curated multiple exhibitions, including Narciso Rodriguez: An Exercise in Minimalism and Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia.^[6]

Selected works

Exhibitions

Some of her notable exhibitions includes,^[7]

• An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum (2003)
• Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers (2004)
• Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (2007)
• Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind (2010)^[8]
• Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and other French National Collections (2012)^{[9] [10]}

Published works

• Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel^{[11] [12]}
• Italian Women Artists: From Renaissance to Baroque^[13]
• An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum^[14]

Notes and References

1. News: Sandomir . Richard . Lee Harris Pomeroy, 85, Dies; Architect Revived Subway Stations . . 25 February 2018.
2. News: Elman . Rinnhofer . Cheek . Jordana Pomeroy — Being Expansive at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum . Inspicio - Florida International University. 27 June 2017.
3. News: Dunseyar . Sarah . Profile: Jordana Pomeroy . . 18 March 2015.
4. Web site: Miller . Robin . Jordana Pomeroy leaves LSU Museum of Art for post in Florida . The Advocate . en.
5. Web site: JORDANA POMEROY NAMED NEW DIRECTOR AT FIU FROST ART MUSEUM . Artforum.com.
6. Web site: Safronova . Valeriya . On Debate Night, Celebrating a Book About Immigrants . The New York Times . 19 October 2016.
7. News: LICON . Adriana Gomez . Bob Dylan artwork show to open in Miami . . November 27, 2021.
8. News: Louisiana State University names Jordana Pomeroy Executive Director of Museum of Art . artdaily.cc . English.
9. Broude . Norma . Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections. Exhibition organized and on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 24 February 2012—29 July 2012, Jordana Pomeroy, Laura Auricchio, Melissa Lee Hyde, and Mary D. Sheriff . Early Modern Women . 1 September 2013 . 8 . 329–339 . 10.1086/EMW23617859 . 1933-0065.
10. Chrisman-Campbell . Kimberly . Review of Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from The Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections . Woman's Art Journal . 2012 . 33 . 2 . 62–64 . 24395299 . 0270-7993.
11. Reviews of Intrepid Women
    • Faxon . Alicia Craig . Review of Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel . Woman's Art Journal . 2006 . 27 . 2 . 40–41 . 20358090 . 0270-7993.
    • PALMER . CAROLINE . Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century edited by Deborah Cherry and Janice Helland; Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel edited by Jordana Pomeroy; Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905 by Meaghan Clarke . . 2009 . 21 . 2 . 444–448 . 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01557_11.x .
    • Web site: Dykes . Melissa . Melissa Dykes's Review of Monica Anderson's Women and the Politics of Travel, 1870-1914 and Jordana Pomeroy's Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel • Issue 3.3 • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies . Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
12. Rhodes . Kimberly . She's Leaving Home: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Women and the Visual Arts . Journal of Women's History . 2009 . 21 . 4 . 205–212 . 10.1353/jowh.0.0104 . 144434507 . 1527-2036.
13. Reviews of Italian Women Artists
    • Quin . Sally . Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque (review) . Parergon . 2008 . 25 . 1 . 217–219 . 10.1353/pgn.0.0048 . 143886338 . 1832-8334.
    • Och . Marjorie . Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., March 16 through July 15, 2007 . Early Modern Women . 2007 . 2 . 193–197 . 10.1086/EMW23541482 . 23541482 . 1933-0065.
    • Poole . Katherine M. . Review of Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque . Woman's Art Journal . 2008 . 29 . 1 . 41–43 . 20358145 . 0270-7993.
14. Reviews of An Imperial Collection
    • Hilton . Alison . Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum . Woman's Art Journal . 2004 . 25 . 2 . 33–35 . 10.2307/3566516 . 3566516 . 0270-7993.
    • Mesropova . Olga . Review of An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum . Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes . 2004 . 46 . 3/4 . 515–516 . 40860070 . 0008-5006.