December 2008
Suzanne Delehanty, founding director of the Miami Art Museum and currently head of an independent arts consultant service, has been named director of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Delehanty will be become director-elect on 1 January 2009, and will assume the full directorship of the museum on 1 April 2009. Her appointment follows a national search and consultation with arts scholars, professionals, and administrators from the university and nationally.
An internationally known museum leader, Delehanty comes to Rutgers with an outstanding record of achievements in the museum field and a reputation for curatorial and managerial excellence. Her ten-year appointment, 1995-2005, at the Miami Art Museum (MAM) led to the transformation of what was the Center for the Fine Arts, a non-collecting space, into Miami’s flagship art museum.
She previously served as the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston 1989-1993; the Neuberger Museum at the State University of New York at Purchase, 1978-1988; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1971-1978.
“I am extremely pleased that Suzanne Delehanty will bring her considerable experience to the Zimmerli and to Rutgers,” said Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick. “She has a track record of reaching beyond the borders of the institutions in which she has worked to bring in new audiences for art and new supporters for the museums.”
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