Jeremy Strick
Director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Jeremy Strick joined The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) as director in 1999, having served previously in curatorial positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. As Director, Strick oversees exhibitions, acquisitions, education programs, and all operations at MOCA's three facilities.

Recently hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the nation's most prominent contemporary art museum," MOCA's reputation has grown during Strick's tenure through an ambitious series of groundbreaking thematic survey exhibitions as well as major monographic presentations of the defining artists of our time. The museum's permanent collection of nearly 6,000 objects has expanded dramatically through the purchase of singular masterworks along with the gift of major collections. MOCA's membership, which tops 20,000 and is the largest of any contemporary art museum in the nation, has grown by over 80 percent since Strick joined the museum.

A native of Los Angeles, Strick graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz and pursued doctoral studies at Harvard University. He has organized numerous exhibitions and published scholarly articles in the fields of modern and contemporary art as well as 19th-century European art.