Joanne Pillsbury (PhD, Columbia University) is the Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. A specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, she was previously associate director of the Getty Research Institute and director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. She has published widely, including Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530–1900; Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award recipient Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks; and Association for Latin American Art Book Award winner Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas. Her 2017 exhibition catalogue Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas won the PROSE Award for Excellence. She served as co-curator of recent exhibitions Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art (2023) and Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art (2024).
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