JAMES CUNO APPOINTED PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE J. PAUL GETTY TRUST
The board of trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that James Cuno has been named president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Cuno, who comes to the Getty after serving as president and Eloise W. Martin director of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2004, will assume his position August 1, 2011.
Prior to directing the Art Institute of Chicago, Cuno was the director and professor of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, from 2003–2004; the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot director of the Harvard University Art Museums and professor of the history of art and architecture at Harvard from 1991–2003; director of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, from 1989–91; director of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, from 1986–89; and assistant professor of art, Vassar College, from 1983–86. Cuno received his Ph.D. in art history from Harvard in 1985.
The board selected Cuno after an extensive international search that began in July 2010, shortly after the untimely death of James M. Wood, who also had come to the Getty after a distinguished career that included serving as the president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago. Deborah Marrow, who has been serving as interim president and CEO, will resume her position as director of the Getty Foundation following Cuno’s arrival in August.
“I am honored to have been invited to serve the Getty Trust as its next president and CEO. I have the highest regard for the many contributions the Trust has made to the presentation, preservation, and study of works of art and architecture in Los Angeles and around the world. There is no other institution like it. Its staff, facilities, and collections are justly renowned and I look forward to working with the board and senior staff to advance the Trust’s important, groundbreaking work,” said Cuno.
