SARAH GLENNIE NAMED DIRECTOR OF THE IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Sarah Glennie has been appointed director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, where she was curator from 1997 to 2001. Since 2008, she has served as director of the Irish Film Institute. Glennie succeeds Enrique Juncosa and is set to begin her new post in April.

“Everyone at IMMA is delighted to have secured as the museum’s new director someone with such an impressive record of achievement in the arts, more especially the visual arts,” said museum chair Eoin McGonigal. “I am confident that Sarah is exceptionally well placed to build on the museum’s very considerable achievements over the past twenty years. It is interesting that Sarah began her distinguished career in the Irish arts sector at IMMA. I believe we can all look forward to the impact her well-known creativity and energy will have on the organization over the coming years.”

Over the past decade, Glennie has curated a number of notable projects including solo exhibitions by Olafur Eliasson and Shirin Neshat. In 2001, she worked with the Henry Moore Foundation Contemporary Projects where she produced a Paul McCarthy show at Tate Modern and “Stopover” at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Glennie was also the commissioner of the Ireland pavilion at the 2005 biennale. That same year, she cocurated a major film commission by Tacita Dean for Cork Capital of Culture.

Said Glennie of her new role: “I look forward to working with the museum’s excellent team and the wider arts community to build on the extraordinary legacy of the museum’s first twenty years as well as to ensure that Ireland continues to have a modern art museum of distinction and international significance.”