Biography
Matthew Drutt is a New York–based curator and art historian and the principal of DCAM · Drutt Creative Arts Management. Formerly Chief Curator of The Menil Collection, Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Executive Director of Artpace San Antonio, he is known for exhibitions and scholarship on the Russian avant-garde and on modern and contemporary craft and design, among them the award-winning Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism.
Recent projects include In Search of 0,10 at the Fondation Beyeler, Gifts from America at the State Hermitage Museum, and Beauty and the Unexpected at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. His books include El Lissitzky: The Jewish Period and Thorwald Hellesen, 1888–1937. He was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 and holds degrees from Yale University and New York University.
Professional experience
2013–
Founder and Principal, DCAM · Drutt Creative Arts Management, New YorkExhibitions, publications, and advisory work for museums and foundations internationally. Curatorial advisor to the Lee Ufan Foundation, Arles; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel; and Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel, Tel Aviv (founding trustee).
2012–2013
Executive Director, Blouin Cultural Advisory Group, New York / LondonFounded the firm's private-client art advisory; Artistic Director, Louise Blouin Foundation, London.
2011
Executive Director, Lisson Gallery, London / Milan / New YorkLed the management team revising the company's business model; head of global sales and high-net-worth client management.
2006–2011
Executive Director, Artpace San AntonioAdministrative, financial, and artistic leadership of a residency-based institution hosting nine international artists and four exhibitions annually. Developed and implemented its first strategic plan.
2001–2006
Chief Curator, The Menil Collection, HoustonMember of the four-person management team, with eight reporting departments. Exhibition and collections planning, acquisitions and capital fundraising, trustee cultivation, long-range planning.
1993–2001
Curator, formerly Associate Curator for Research, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New YorkExhibition and publication programs; Archives and Library; acquisition committee development, including the Photography Committee and Young Collectors Council; curatorial liaison to the Director's Office on global museum planning.
1991–1993
Director of Special Projects, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
1988–1991
Independent curator and arts management consultant
1984–1985
Acting Director / Director of Development, The Fabric Workshop, New York
Awards and honors
2006
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des LettresFrench Republic
2003
Best Monographic Exhibition Organized Nationally, International Association of Art CriticsFor Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism
1997
Best Monographic Exhibition Organized Nationally, second place, International Association of Art CriticsFor Max Beckmann in Exile
1990
Alfred H. Barr Award, College Art AssociationFor Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1847–1917, as contributing author