An award-winning art scholar and museum leader, Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) is the first full-time curator of Native American Art at The Met, a first in the museum’s 150-year history. Dr. Norby previously served as Senior Executive and Assistant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian-New York, and as Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at The Newberry, in Chicago.
Her curatorial vision and exhibition strategies at The Met have been celebrated by the New York Times, PBS, Forbes Magazine’s “50 Over 50 2021: Vision,” Bitch Media, and described as “A New Voice in an Old Institution” by The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Pasatiempo.
Her forthcoming book, Water, Bones, and Bombs, examines 20th-century American Indian and American art in context with environmental conflicts in northern New Mexico (University of Nebraska Press). She also co-edited “Aesthetic Violence: Art and Indigenous Ways of Knowing,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, (2015) and earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and her MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Articles
Patricia Marroquin Norby Is Bringing a Native Perspective to the Met
The New York Times
Badgering: Patricia Marroquin Norby MA’01, MFA’02
Wisconsin Alumni Association
Patricia Marroquin Norby: The First Indigenous Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Southwest Contemporary