| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Name | Dates | Museum | Country | Tenure |
|---|
| {{anchor|A}}Julia Alexander | 1967–2025 | Walters Art Museum | United States | 2013–2024 |
| Hope Alswang | | Rhode Island School of Design Museum[{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/app.php/news/hope-alswang-named-director-and-ceo-of-norton-museum-24913|title=Hope Alswang Named Director and CEO of Norton Museum|website=www.artforum.com|access-date=2018-03-17}}]
Norton Museum of Art[{{Cite web|url=https://www.aamd.org/our-members/members|title=Members|website=Association of Art Museum Directors|access-date=2018-03-17}}]
|United States | 2000s |
| Rael Artel | | Tartu Art Museum[{{Cite web|url=http://www.kul.ee/en/news/rael-artel-will-continue-director-tartu-art-museum|title=Rael Artel will continue as the Director of the Tartu Art Museum {{!}} Ministry of Culture|website=www.kul.ee|language=en|access-date=2018-03-17}}] | Estonia | 2000s |
| Liz Andrews
|
|Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
|United States
|2021–present |
| {{anchor|B}}Jacquelynn Baas | | Hood Museum of Art
University Art Museum, Berkeley | United States | 1980s and 1990s |
| Maria Balshaw | | Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries
Tate | United Kingdom | 2006-2017
2017-[{{cite web|title=Dr Maria Balshaw|url=https://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/members/tg/|publisher=National Museum Directors' Council|accessdate=4 April 2018}}][{{Cite news |last=Loos |first=Ted |date=April 25, 2023 |title="Increasingly, Women Are Running the World's Great Museums" |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/design/women-leadership-museums.html |work=The New York Times}}] |
| Ivy Barsky | | National Museum of American Jewish History[{{cite web|url=http://www.nmajh.org/stafflist/ |title=Staff List |publisher=NMAJH |accessdate=2014-05-19}}] | United States | 2000s |
| Jane Bledsoe
|
|Georgia Museum of Art
|United States
|1980s |
| Jean Sutherland Boggs | 1922–2014 | National Gallery of Canada | Canada | 1960s–1970s |
| Patricia Bovey | | Winnipeg Art Gallery | Canada | 2000s |
| Adelyn Dohme Breeskin | 1896–1986 | Baltimore Museum of Art | United States | 1930s |
| Elizabeth Broun | born 1946 | Spencer Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum | United States | 1982–1983
1989–2016 |
| Andrea Barnwell Brownlee | | Spelman College Museum of Fine Art (2001–2020)
Cummer Museum of Art (2020–present)
| United States | 2001–present |
| {{anchor|C}} Mary Schmidt Campbell | born 1948 | Studio Museum in Harlem | United States | 1980s |
| Melissa Chiu | born 1972 | Asia Society | United States | 2000s |
| Annette Cone-Skelton
|born 1942
|Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
|United States
|2000–present |
| {{anchor|D}} Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker | | Vancouver Art Gallery
Frye Art Museum | Canada | 1980s |
| Barbara Knowles Debs | | New-York Historical Society[{{cite news |title=Historical Society Names Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/02/arts/historical-society-names-leader.html |quote=Mr. Pearlstine, who has been chairman of the Historical Society since April 1989, is to head a search committee to replace Dr. Barbara Knowles Debs, who retired yesterday after four years as president. ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=October 2, 1992 |accessdate=2014-08-08 }}] | United States | 1980s |
| Rhana Devenport | | Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery | New Zealand | 2006–2013
2013–present |
| Anne d'Harnoncourt | 1943–2008 | Philadelphia Museum of Art | United States | 1980s |
| Claire Doherty | | Arnolfini | United Kingdom | 2017–present |
| Anne Ellegood
|
|Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
|United States
|2019–present |
| {{anchor|E}} Charlotte Eyerman
|
|JPMorgan Chase Art Collection[{{Cite news|url=https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/news/stories/new-director-chief-curator-jpmc-art-collection.htm|title=New Director and Chief Curator of the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection Named|publisher=JPMorgan Chase & Co.|access-date=2018-03-17|language=en}}] (2017-)
Monterey Museum of Art[{{Cite news|url=https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2016/08/08/charlotte-eyerman-leaves-monterey-museum-art/88438554/|title=Charlotte Eyerman leaves the Monterey Museum of Art|work=The Salinas Californian|access-date=2018-03-17|language=en}}] (2013–16)
FRAME (French Regional & American Museums Exchange) (2010–2013)
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (2009–2010)
|United States
|2000s |
| {{anchor|F}} Juliana R. Force | 1876–1948 | Whitney Museum of American Art | United States | 1930s |
| {{anchor|G}} Courtney Gardner | born 1967 | Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
Peninsula Fine Arts Center | United States | 2000s |
| Thelma Golden | born 1966 | Studio Museum in Harlem | United States | 2000s-present |
| Claudia Gould | born 1956 | Institute of Contemporary Art
Jewish Museum | United States | 2000s |
| {{anchor|H}} Jenny Harper | | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Christchurch Art Gallery | New Zealand | 1990–1992
2006–2018 |
| Anne Hawley | | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | United States | 1980s |
| Alanna Heiss | born 1943 | P.S.1 now MoMA PS1 | United States | 1970s |
| Karin Hindsbo | born 1974 | Tate Modern | United Kingdom | 2023–present |
| Rebecca Alban Hoffberger | | American Visionary Art Museum | United States | 2000s |
| {{anchor|J}} Tessa Jackson | born 1955 | Arnolfini | United Kingdom | 1991-1999 |
| Ethel Bowditch Jones | 1906–1990 | Fitchburg Art Museum (fmly Fitchburg Art Center) | United States | 1929-1933[Fitchburg Sentinel Newspaper Archives, Saturday, July 16, 1932 - Page 4; Fitchburg Sentinel Newspaper Archives, Sep 27, 1933, p. 7; see also JONES, ETHEL B. "FITCHBURG'S NEW ART CENTER." The American Magazine of Art, vol. 21, no. 2, 1930, pp. 98–99. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23931378.] |
| {{anchor|K}} Dorothy Kosinski | | The Phillips Collection | United States | 2000s |
| {{anchor|L}} Florence Nightingale Levy | 1870–1947 | Baltimore Museum of Art | United States | 1920s |
| Peggy Loar | | Corcoran Gallery of Art | United States | 2000s |
| {{anchor|M}} Dorothy Mayhall | 1925–1995 | Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Storm King Art Center | United States | 1960s–1970s |
| Amy Meyers | | Yale Center for British Art | United States | 2002-2019 |
| Louise Mirrer | | New-York Historical Society | United States | 2000s |
| Lulu F. Miller | 1916–1930 | Muskegon Museum of Art[{{cite web|title=History - Muskegon Art Museum|date=18 November 2008 |url=http://www.muskegonartmuseum.org/history/|publisher=Muskegon Museum of Art|accessdate=2016-02-09}}] | United States | 1910s |
| Agnes Mongan | 1905–1996 | Harvard Art Museums | United States | 1940s |
| Grace Morley | 1900–1985 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | United States | 1930s |
| Frances Morris | born 1959 | Tate Modern | United Kingdom | 2016–2023 |
| {{anchor|N}} Jessica F. Nicoll | | Smith College Museum of Art | United States | 2000s |
| {{anchor|P}} Anne Pasternak | | Brooklyn Museum | United States | 2000s |
| Sharon Patton | born 1944 | Allen Memorial Art Museum | United States | 2000s |
| Ann Philbin | | Hammer Museum | United States | 1990s |
| Lisa Phillips | | New Museum of Contemporary Art | United States | 2000s |
| Mary Platt | | Hilbert Museum of California Art[{{cite web|url=http://www.hilbertmuseum.org|title=Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University|website=Hilbert Museum}}] | United States | 2000s |
| Anne Poulet | | The Frick Collection | United States | 2000s |
| Yelena Pronicheva | | Tretyakov Gallery | Russian Federation | 2023–present |
| {{anchor|R}} | Hilla von Rebay | 1890–1967 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | United States | 1930s |
| Anne-Imelda Radice | born 1948 | National Museum of Women in the Arts
American Folk Art Museum | United States | 1983–1989
2012–2022 |
| Suhanya Raffel | | M+
| Hong Kong |
2016–present |
| Katharine Lee Reid | | Cleveland Museum of Art | United States | 2000–2005 |
| Joan Rosenbaum | | Jewish Museum (Manhattan) | United States | 1980s |
| {{anchor|S}} Amy Sadao | | Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia[{{Cite web| last = Jacoby| first = Sarah| title = Amy Sadao Appointed Executive Director of the ICA Philadelphia| work = Art in America| accessdate = 2015-04-21| date = 2012-06-22| url = http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/amy-sadao-ica-philadelphia/}}] | United States | 2000s |
| Cornelia Bentley Sage | 1876 or 1880–1936 | Albright-Knox Gallery[{{cite web|title=Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton Records, 1908-1930|url=http://www.albrightknox.org/research/archives-collection/cornelia-bentley-sage-quinton/|publisher=Albright-Knox Art Gallery|accessdate=21 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513002553/http://www.albrightknox.org/research/archives-collection/cornelia-bentley-sage-quinton/|archive-date=13 May 2014|url-status=dead}}] | United States | 1910s |
| Katrina Sedgwick | | Australian Centre for the Moving Image | Australia | 2015–present |
| Hsio-yen Shih | 1933–2001 | National Gallery of Canada | Canada | 1970s |
| Rochelle Slovin | | Museum of the Moving Image[{{cite news|last=Pogrebin|first=Robin|title=It's a Wrap: Director of Film Museum Plans to Retire|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/arts/design/04image.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 3, 2010}}] | United States | 1980s |
| Cheryll Sotheran | | Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | New Zealand | 1986–1989
1989–1992
1992–2002 |
| Susan Fisher Sterling | | National Museum of Women in the Arts[{{cite news|last=Boyle|first=Katherine|title=The Directors|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/02/28/the-directors/|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 28, 2014|author2=O'Neal Parker, Lonnae}}] | United States | 2000s |
| Lowery Stokes Sims | | Studio Museum in Harlem | United States | 2000s |
| Stephanie Stebich | born 1966 | Tacoma Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum | United States | 2005–2017
2017–present |
| Martha Tedeschi | born 1958 | Harvard Art Museums | United States | 2016–present |
| {{anchor|T}} Shirley Thomson | 1930–2010 | National Gallery of Canada | Canada | 1987–97[{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/former-national-gallery-head-shirley-thomson-dies-1.932202|title=Former National Gallery head Shirley Thomson dies|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|work=CBC Arts|date=11 August 2010|access-date=3 March 2020}}] |
| Marcia Tucker | 1940–2006 | New Museum of Contemporary Art | United States | 1980s |
| {{anchor|V}} Olga Viso | | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Walker Art Center | United States | 2000s |
| {{anchor|W}} Roslyn Walker | | National Museum of African Art | United States | 1990s |
| Zoé Whitley | born 1979 | Chisenhale Gallery | United Kingdom | 2020–present |
| Sylvia H. Williams | | National Museum of African Art | United States | 1980s |
| Beatrice Winser | | Newark Museum | United States | 1920s |
| {{anchor|Z}} Heidi Zuckerman | | Aspen Art Museum
Orange County Museum of Art | United States | 2005–2019
2021–present |
| Zelfira Tregulova | | Tretyakov Gallery | Russian Federation | 2015–2023 |
Joyce Tsai, PhD[{{Cite web |last=Andersen-Vie |first=Sanya |date=2021-05-28 |title=Clyfford Still Museum announces Joyce Tsai as next director |url=https://clyffordstillmuseum.org/blog/clyfford-still-museum-announces-joyce-tsai-as-next-director/ |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=Clyfford Still Museum |language=en-US}}]
|
|The Clyfford Still Museum
|United States
|2021–present |
| Connie Butler
|
|MoMA PS1
|United States
|2023-present |
| Johanna Burton
|
|Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
|United States
|2022-present |
| Laurence des Cars
|
|Louvre
|France
|2021-present |
| Sasha Suda
|
|Philadelphia Museum
|Canada
|2022-present |
| Victoria Siddall
|
|National Portrait Gallery, London
|United Kingdom
|2024-present |