Jenny Dixon

Jenny Dixon joined The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum as director in April 2003. Since that time, she has consolidated the Museum and Foundation into a single entity, popularly known as The Noguchi Museum, and greatly expanded public awareness of both the Museum and Isamu Noguchi’s production. She has achieved this by initiating the Museum’s first program of temporary exhibitions and by greatly expanding its roster of public programs, among other initiatives. In all of these efforts, Dixon has sought to honor Noguchi’s vision of the museum he created. Dixon began her arts career in 1977, when she joined the Public Art Fund, where she served as executive director from 1980 through 1986. Among her many accomplishments at the Fund was the initiation of the New York City “Percent for Art” program. In 1999 she was named director of The Bronx Museum of the Arts. During her tenure at the Bronx Museum she initiated an extensive capital program and secured the organization’s position as a major educational resource for local school children. Dixon has taught at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Parsons School of Design, and New York University. She is on the boards of the Public Art Fund, Inc., and the New York City Arts Coalition, among other organizations. Her numerous past board affiliations include the New York City Cultural Institutions Group, the Alliance for Downtown New York, and Art Table.