Tricia Y. Paik

  • Florence Finch Abbott Director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Tricia Y. Paik

Tricia oversees the Museum’s administration and advancement while ensuring that its exhibitions, programs, and collection uphold the institutional mission. She earned an A.B. in English and art history from Dartmouth College and a masters and PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. An experienced art world professional, Tricia has worked at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Christie's Education. A specialist in modern and contemporary art, she is the main author of the 2015 Phaidon survey of Ellsworth Kelly’s life and career.

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A major effort by a Five College-based museum collaboration to create a shared collections resource for students, researchers and the general public has received a $350,000 boost from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A new exhibition, “vanessa german — THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH,” will be on view at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (MHCAM) to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum bequest.

Art historian and curator Tricia Y. Paik has been named the next director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.