Patricia Rubin is an art historian, professor and administrator. In addition to her decades-long teaching career in London and New York, she has been Deputy Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and founding Head of the Courtauld Institute Research Forum (2004-9), Director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (2009-17) and Acting Director of Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies/Villa I Tatti in Florence (1997). She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Courtauld Institute.
Museum-based education and research has been fundamental to her work. She has been involved as co-curator, consultant and catalogue contributor to numerous exhibitions and served on museum boards and committees at the Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Morgan Library and Museum and the Galleria dell’Accademia of Venice.
Appointment information
- Appointed by: National Gallery
- Appointment: 27 January 2025
- Term expires: 28 November 2028