Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

Phone:

812-856-7063

Email:

gaolms@iu.edu

Department:

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

Campus:

IU, IU Bloomington

Galina Olmsted is the Assistant Curator of European and American Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, a position she has held since 2019. She is also the managing editor for A Space of their Own, which launched in 2022. Her doctoral dissertation, "Making and Exhibiting Modernism: Gustave Caillebotte in Paris, New York, and Brussels," evaluated Caillebotte's art- and exhibition-making as interconnected forms of modern artistic expression. In recent years, her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Center for Material Culture Studies, the Getty Research Institute, and the Center for Curatorial Leadership. Prior to joining the staff of the Eskenazi Museum of Art, she held curatorial positions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the University of Delaware Museums. She has also worked in the education departments of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation. She earned a BA in English and Art History from Georgetown University, an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from Case Western Reserve University, and a PhD in Art History from the University of Delaware.