Christine Kondoleon

Chair of Art of Ancient Greece and Rome, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Dr. Christine Kondoleon is the George Behrakis Chair of the Art of Ancient Greece and Rome at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. As Chair she has led the renovations and reinterpretations of twelve new galleries of Greek, Roman and Byzantine art for the Behrakis Wing of Ancient Art at the MFA Boston that opened in December 2021.  

She is the curator of “Cy Twombly: Making Past Present” (July to Oct 2020) and the editor of the accompanying exhibition catalogue (Getty Center and MFA Boston). In addition to publications of this world-renowned collection, she also organized the exhibition “Games for the Gods in 2004, and “Aphrodite and the Gods of Love,” the first exhibition on the goddess of love, in 2011.

She was formerly the Curator of Ancient Art at the Worcester Art Museum where she organized the 2000-2001 exhibition “Antioch: The Lost Ancient City.”  She has worked with contemporary artists from Greece to promote the Greek Art today exhibition at the SMFA, and with Chuck Close for a show at the Worcester Art Museum. She was Associate Professor of Art at Williams College (1982-1995) where she also served as Chair of the Department and Acting Director of Clark Art Institute Graduate Program. She was an invited Resident at the American Academy in Rome in 2007, and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Tufts University. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1985.  Her special field is later Roman and Early Byzantine Art and mosaics. 

HIGHLIGHTS:

Article in Boston Globe on renovated MFA galleries for Art of Ancient Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire:  https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/01/13/arts/mfa-sleeping-giant-awakens/