Jeff Rosenheim

Curator in Charge, Photographs The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jeff Rosenheim is the Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Photographs.

Rosenheim joined the Metropolitan Museum in 1988. The author of ten books on Walker Evans, Jeff is the steward of the Walker Evans Archive, which the Metropolitan acquired in 1994. He is also the custodian of the Diane Arbus Archive. Rosenheim has a BA in American studies from Yale University, and an MFA in photography from Tulane University. He has lectured extensively, curated numerous exhibitions, such as Photography and the American Civil War (2013), and published essays on a wide range of artists including Carleton Watkins, Thomas Eakins, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore.

Portrait of Jeff Rosenheim by photographer Jackie Neale Chadwick © 2013 MMA

Hope Jury

Sir David King (Chairman)

Affiliate Partner, SystemIQ Limited
Senior Strategy Adviser to the President of Rwanda

Learn more

Martin Barnes and Marta Weiss

Senior Curators of Photographs
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Learn more

Philippe Bertherat

Former Managing Partner, Pictet Group

Learn more

Jan Dalley

Arts Editor, Financial Times

Learn more

Herminia Ibarra

Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour
London Business School

Learn more

Richard Mosse

Photographer, Winner of Prix Pictet Space

Learn more

Jeff Rosenheim

Curator in Charge, Photographs
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Learn more

Kazuyo Sejima

Co-Founder, SANAA
Pritzker Prize-winning architects

Learn more