Sylvia Wolf
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Sylvia Wolf is a prominent American museum curator and educator who served as the John S. Behnke Director of the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington from 2008 until her retirement in 2022. She spent over 35 years in museum service, including significant tenures as a photography curator at both the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art. At the Whitney (1999–2004), she served as chair of the photography department. Wolf has also been an educator for 20 years, teaching studio art, art history, and museum studies at various institutions including New York University's Tisch School of Art and Columbia University.[1,2,3]
Themes
- photography
- curatorship
- museum education
Books
Works by Sylvia Wolf
- Ed Ruscha and Photography 2004 · Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art · book · English ISBN 3865210171 Edited by Sylvia Wolf.
Exhibitions
- Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York group

