Associate Curator/Curator and Department Head of European Painting and Sculpture
The Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art seeks a visionary curator to lead its Department of European Painting and Sculpture using a globally oriented and socio-historically grounded curatorial approach. The successful candidate will be a scholar who is committed to interrogating the formation of European artistic practice within the contexts of colonial expansion, global trade, and sustained exchange with Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. In centering these interconnected histories, the curator will work collaboratively with curatorial staff across departments to reconceive the Museum’s presentations of European art and challenge inherited disciplinary boundaries. Through exhibitions, collection reinstallations, research, and extensive in-gallery interpretation, the curator will articulate how European artistic traditions emerged in dialogue with—and were materially, formally, and conceptually shaped by—global systems of exchange, colonization, and diaspora.
The successful candidate will be a specialist in European art from the 15th to the 19th centuries with a demonstrated commitment to education and public engagement. While the Department of European Painting and Sculpture encompasses European art from the 13th century through 1960, the Associate Curator/Curator and Department Head is not expected to be a specialist across this full chronological span. Rather, they should be comfortable providing intellectual leadership and making informed curatorial and interpretive decisions across the breadth of the collection. As such, the successful candidate will approach curatorial practice as a collaborative endeavor that requires deep engagement with internal and external stakeholders and will be committed to polyvocal and inclusive modes of storytelling.
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