Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art

Guggenheim curator since 1993

Vivien Greene specializes in late 19th- and early 20th-century European art with a concentration in Italian art. She has most recently curated Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus and Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism:Arcadia and Anarchy. Among her latest publications are Aestheticism and Japan: The Cult of the Orient in the 2009 Guggenheim catalogue, The Third Mind: Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989, and Radical Light: Italy's Divisionist Painters (London: National Gallery, 2008).  She regularly presents papers at scholarly conferences and cochaired a session, "Modernizing Millet," at the 2010 College Art Association Conference. Greene was the recipient of a Bogliasco Fellowship in 2009. In 2003 she received a Fulbright Travel Grant to Italy and a Predoctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Modern Italian Studies at the American Academy in Rome. She has a Ph. D. in 19th-Century European Art History. She is a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Curators.