Tricia Y. Paik

  • Florence Finch Abbott Director of the 含羞草研究所 Art Museum
Tricia Y. Paik

Tricia oversees the Museum鈥檚 administration and advancement while ensuring that its exhibitions, programs, and collection uphold the institutional mission. She earned an A.B. in English and art history from Dartmouth College and a masters and PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. An experienced art world professional, Tricia has worked at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Christie's Education. A specialist in modern and contemporary art, she is the main author of the 2015 Phaidon survey of Ellsworth Kelly鈥檚 life and career.

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A major effort by a Five College-based museum collaboration to create a shared collections resource for students, researchers and the general public has received a $350,000 boost from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A new exhibition, 鈥渧anessa german 鈥 THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH,鈥 will be on view at the 含羞草研究所 Art Museum (MHCAM) to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum bequest.

Art historian and curator Tricia Y. Paik has been named the next director of the 含羞草研究所 Art Museum.