Lynne Cooke is a curator and writer living in New York. She has held positions at the following institutions: 1991-2008 Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York; 2008-2012 Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; 2012-2014 Andrew W Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, and 2014-2025 Senior Curator, both at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. In 1991 she co-curated the Carnegie International; in 1996 she helmed the Sydney Biennale. Her most recent shows include Outliers and American Vanguard Art, 2018, and Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, 2023. Cooke has published extensively on modern and contemporary artists, including Alighiero e Boetti, James Castle, Sonia Delaunay, Zoe Leonard, Agnes Martin, and more.