17 Facts About Thelma Golden

Thelma Golden is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness.

Thelma Golden had her first hands-on training as a senior in high school at the New Lincoln School, training as a curatorial apprentice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Thelma Golden helped put several exhibitions together at the Smith College Museum of Art as a student, including one called Dorothy C Miller: With an Eye to American Art, which chronicled the groundbreaking contributions of her signature "Americans" exhibitions.

Thelma Golden was then a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1988 to 1998.

Thelma Golden was the visual arts director at the Jamaica Arts Center in Queens before she became director of the Whitney Museum's outpost in midtown Manhattan in 1991.

Thelma Golden organized many notable exhibitions, including the controversial 1993 Biennial, directed by Elisabeth Sussman; Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art ; Bob Thompson: A Retrospective ; Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: New Work from the Collection ; and Hindsight: Recent Work from the Permanent Collection.

Thelma Golden was the Special Projects Curator for contemporary art collectors Peter Norton and Eileen Harris Norton from 1998 to 2000.

In 2005, Thelma Golden became the Studio Museum's director and chief curator.

Thelma Golden is an active guest curator, writer, lecturer, juror, and advisor.

Thelma Golden's talk examined how contemporary artists continue to shape dialogue about race, culture, and community.

In 2004, Thelma Golden curated a retrospective of fashion designer Patrick Kelly at the Brooklyn Museum.

Thelma Golden then co-curated the traveling exhibition Glenn Ligon: Some Changes in 2005.

Thelma Golden serves on the Graduate Committee at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, is on the boards of Creative Time in New York and the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, and was a 2008 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

The New York City's cultural advisory committee invited Thelma Golden to serve on their committee in 2015.

In 2016, Thelma Golden became a member on the board of trustees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

In 2010, Thelma Golden was appointed to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.

Thelma Golden served on the Committee for the Preservation of the White House until 2016.