About Us

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery advances Columbia University's historical, critical, and creative engagement with the visual arts. Serving as both a laboratory and a forum, the Wallach Art Gallery offers opportunities for curatorial practice and discourse, while bridging the diverse approaches to the arts at the University with a welcome broader public. We present projects that:

Are organized by graduate students and faculty in Art History & Archaeology or by other Columbia scholars;

Focus on the contemporary artists of our campus and communities;

Offer new scholarship on University special collections.

Established in 1986, the Wallach Art Gallery is the University's premier visual arts space. We are a platform for critically acclaimed exhibitions, a dynamic range of programming, and publications that contribute to scholarship. The Wallach Art Gallery also animates other university spaces as opportunity arises.

Operating as one of the university's interdisciplinary centers, we operate in close relationship with the Department of Art History and Archaeology, School of the Arts, and the University Libraries, particularly Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.

Betti-Sue Hertz, Director and Chief Curator-The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery

Jennifer Mock, Associate Director-Education and Public Programs

Jeanette Silverthorne, Associate Director, Finance and Administration   

Eddie José Bartolomei, Exhibitions Manager

Nathaly Berrio-Diaz, Exhibition Coordinator and Registrar  

Evan Clinton, Gallery Attendant

Stephanie Litchfield, Gallery Attendant

Daniel Lopez, Gallery Attendant

Bruno G. Bosteels, Dean of Humanities and Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures

Sarah Cole, Dean of the School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Teresa Harris, Director of Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Holger A. Klein, Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History and Department Chair, Art History and Archaeology

Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Professor of Art History, Barnard College

Elisa Marina Arguello, MA student in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies

Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Contemporary Art and LGBTQ+ Studies

Anne Higonnet, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History, Barnard College

Karen L. Green, Curator for Comics and Cartoons, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library

Akeem Flavors, PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University

Miya Masaoka, Chair of Visual Arts, School of the Arts

Tomas Vu-Daniel, Leroy Neiman Professor of Professional Practice and Artistic Director, Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies