Heather Lemonedes

Chief Curator, Cleveland Museum of Art

**Heather Lemonedes** was appointed Chief Curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art in May 2016. She joined the curatorial staff of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2002, and was named curator of Drawings in 2010. She also serves as adjunct professor in the Department of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. Lemonedes has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions with scholarly catalogues at the Cleveland Museum of Art, including British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2013); Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889 (2009), co-organized by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam; and Monet in Normandy (2007), co-organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the North Carolina Museum of Art. In addition, Lemonedes has curated various exhibitions for the prints and drawings galleries, including Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2016-17); Imagining the Garden (2015-16); Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints (2015); and Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-century Paris (2012). Lemonedes received a Bachelor’s degree in art history from Vassar College, a Master’s degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Previously, she has been employed in the Prints and Drawings Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Print Department at Christie’s, New York. She has served on the Board of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and served two terms as president of the Vassar Club of Cleveland.