Executive Director, Storm King Art Center
Nora Lawrence is executive director of Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre outdoor museum featuring large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions in New York’s Hudson Valley. In this role, she has helped grow the center’s audience fourfold and bring in a new generation of artists.
Previously, Lawrence was artistic director and chief curator at Storm King and, before that, she served as the center’s senior curator. Earlier in her career, she worked in the Museum of Modern Art’s painting and sculpture department.
She is the author and co-author of several contemporary art publications and essays. She has received grants from the Henry Luce Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts at the National Gallery, and the Office of Contemporary Art Norway, among others.
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