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

Zachary Valdez, Administrative Assistant

Evan Clinton, Gallery Attendant

Stephanie Litchfield, Gallery Attendant

Daniel Lopez, Gallery Attendant

Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology and Department Chair

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

Teresa Harris, Director of Avery Fine Arts and Architectural Library

Amy Hungerford, Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Diane Bodart, David Rosand Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art History

Matthew Buckingham, Chair, Visual Arts; Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Visual Arts

Aidan Ford Chisholm, MA Candidate in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies (MODA) at Columbia University

Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties-Avery Architectural and Fines Arts Library

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

Jonathan Reynolds, Professor, Art History, Barnard College

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

Yasmine Yakuppur, PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University