Terrie Sultan Hits 10-Year Milestone

During Terrie Sultan’s tenure, the Parrish Art Museum has presented more than 80 exhibitions, produced 22 publications and moved to a new, award-winning home, cementing its reputation as a world-renowned art museum and cultural gathering place on the East End.

And that was just in her first 10 years.

“Having the opportunity to lead this august institution into a new era has been extremely rewarding,” Sultan said in a press release. “Completing the new building is just the beginning of what the Parrish can achieve, and I am looking forward to continuing to guide the museum as we look to what the future will bring to the Parrish, the region and the world.”

Sultan has more than three decades of experience as a museum professional, having previously served in senior positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, before joining the Parrish Art Museum as director in January 2008.

In the years since, exhibitions of note have included “Rackstraw Downs: Onsite Paintings” in 2010, which traveled to two additional museums in the United States; “Alice Aycock: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating” in 2013; “Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe—Works 1970–2011” and “William Glackens” in 2014; “Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson: Seen and Unseen” in 2016; and “John Graham: Maverick Modernist” in 2017.

New curatorial initiatives developed under Sultan’s oversight are “Platform,” where individual artists, such as Maya Lin, Tara Donovan, Clifford Ross and others, have responded to the museum’s architecture and site; “Road Show,” which features off-site exhibitions by young local artists in unexpected places; and “Artists Choose Artists,” a juried exhibition celebrating the dynamic relationships between established artists and practitioners they select.

A member of the Southampton Cultural Arts Council, Sultan is also a founding member of the Hamptons Art Network, a consortium of 19 non-for-profit cultural organizations working together to create a unified arts community, and was recently appointed to the board of directors of Discover Long Island, becoming an advocate for culture on the East End.

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