Heidi zuckerman jacobson biography

Heidi Zuckerman (born 1967 or 1968) is an American museum director and curator who is CEO and director of the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa.
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson is the chief executive officer and director, chief curator of the Aspen Art Museum.
Heidi Zuckerman is a globally recognized, visionary leader in contemporary art and the first woman to build two art museums.

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“I think the simpler something seems, the harder it actually is to do,” Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, the CEO, director and chief curator of the Aspen Art Museum, told Gallerist by telephone earlier this week. She was explaining the challenges posed by an exhibition she has organized for Chelsea’s Flag Art Foundation: she’d set herself the task of choosing only artworks that she finds humorous.

It sounds easy, but vanguard art has long had what you might call a humor problem. When was the last time you really burst out laughing while looking at modern or contemporary art? It’s tricky to deliver a killer punch line in a field that celebrates things that are multivalent and ambiguous, and has for decades eschewed narrative and everyday life. And abstract art is not funny. Ever.

Ms. Jacobson has assembled pieces by more than 25 artists for the show, which opens Friday and is called “Funny.” There is a shelf with a strainer and a soap dispenser in the colors of the American flag (by Haim Steinbach), two life-size wax policemen standing on their heads (Maurizio Cattelan) and “time-test

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Aspen Art Museum board announces new director

Though its director is about to exit, the Aspen Art Museum is far from broken. So Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, who was announced yesterday as the museum’s new director and chief curator, isn’t looking to fix it.”I think what I’ll be doing is building on what he’s done,” said Jacobson from California, referring to Dean Sobel, whose six-year tenure at the Aspen Art Museum ends Feb. 21. “But with my own aesthetic.” She added that she will focus on developing partnerships with other Aspen nonprofit organizations and on upgrading the museum’s facility.”I think Dean left us in great shape,” said Dick Osur, president of the board of the museum. “All of us feel he brought us to another level, both financially, and in the quality, by getting us accredited [by the American Association of Museums]. We’re hoping Heidi can bring us to another level, with her past achievements and connections worldwide.”Jacobson has demonstrated that international view of the cont

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Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson: Risk Taking & Contemporary Art

In this lecture titled “Risk Taking and Contemporary Art”—viewable by clicking on the Video icon above—Aspen Art Museum CEO and director Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson discusses the need for curators to advocate for artists. She also presents various exhibitions she has curated during her career—to date, this amounts to more than 100 shows.

Zuckerman Jacobson delivered this talk on November 18, 2013, at the University of Toronto’s Hart House as part of the Canadian Art Foundation Anne Lind International Program. The Anne Lind International Program provides an opportunity for dialogue among noted international artists, curators and critics and their Canadian counterparts.

During her time in Canada as part of this program, Zuckerman Jacobson visited the studios of Luis Jacob, Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman, and Ed Pien, as well as exhibitions at Mercer Union, the Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among other activities.

Past participants in the Anne Lind International Program have included a