Madeleine Grynsztejn has been appointed Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, according to a media release. With over 20 years of institutional experience, Grynsztejn is internationally recognized for her scholarship and leadership, and has held top curatorial positions at several of the world’s leading art museums. Grynsztejn is currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and plans to assume her responsibilities at the MCA in early spring 2008.
Grynsztejn becomes the seventh director—and the first female—to lead the MCA. She succeeds Robert Fitzpatrick, who announced his resignation this past March. Grynsztejn, 45, will leave her position as Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA where she, among other things, was responsible for developing museum programming; producing scholarly publications; and advancing relations with artists, collectors and colleagues around the world. Her current exhibition, Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, recently opened at SFMOMA to strong critical reviews and will travel to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.