Lynne Cooke

Lynne Cooke is an Australian-born art scholar and renowned curator who has served as Senior Curator for Special Projects in Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC since 2014. Born in Geelong, Australia in 1952, she holds a B.A. from Melbourne University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the Courtauld Institute, University of London. She has curated major exhibitions worldwide, including the Venice Biennale in 1986 and the Sydney Biennial in 1996, and has written extensively on contemporary art.