Please note: All ramps and additional galleries of the museum are currently closed due to the installation of John Chamberlain: Choices, opening on February 24. The admission price is reduced at this time, and advance tickets are not available. 

Susan Davidson

Senior Curator, Collections & Exhibitions

Guggenheim curator since 2002

Susan Davidson, Senior Curator, Collections & Exhibitions, has been a member of the senior curatorial staff since 2002. Before joining the Guggenheim, she was collections curator at the Menil Collection in Houston for 18 years. Davidson’s research areas include Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop art, and she is a specialist on the art of Robert Rauschenberg. In addition to preparing exhibitions for the Guggenheim’s network of museums, she oversees the institution’s outgoing loans and collection management policies. Her most recent exhibitions and catalogues include: Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts; Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation; No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper; Peggy and Kiesler: The Collector and the Visionary (The Story of Art of This Century); and American Pop Icons. She holds advanced degrees in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and George Washington University, Washington, D.C.  

On View Now

Special Exhibitions

Pop Objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection
September 30, 2011–February 8, 2012

Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in the Guggenheim Collection
November 19, 2011–February 8, 2012

Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, 1922–1933
Ongoing

From the Archives: Artist Awards and Acquisitions, 1956–1987
December 3, 2011–July 16, 2012


Collection on View

Thannhauser Collection
Ongoing


Opening Soon

John Chamberlain: Choices
February 24–May 13, 2012


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Events

An Iliad by New York Theatre Workshop

An Iliad by New York
Theatre Workshop

Sunday, February 5, 7:30 pm

Works & Process welcomes you to preview An Iliad, starring Denis O'Hare and Stephen Spinella in a performance of Homer's epic tale.


Friday Film Screenings
February 3, 10, and 17

Fridays bring $5 films as part of the ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival. Check times.


Midwinter Arts Camp
February 20–24, 9:30 am–4 pm

For kids ages 8–11. Enroll now.


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Please note: All ramps and additional galleries of the museum are currently closed due to the installation of John Chamberlain: Choices, opening on February 24. The admission price is reduced at this time, and advance tickets are not available.

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