2027 CCL Fellows
The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the 2027 cohort of Fellows: twelve outstanding curators from institutions around the world. Marking its twentieth year, the CCL Fellowship is the leading program worldwide for preparing purpose-driven curators to become visionary leaders of museums and cultural institutions.
Selected through a highly competitive process by a committee of distinguished museum leaders, the 2027 Fellows bring exceptional records of scholarly and curatorial achievement, diverse perspectives, and a shared commitment to shaping a more dynamic and responsive museum field. Reflecting the breadth of curatorial practice today, the cohort represents a wide range of institutional contexts, including seven new to CCL, and expertise in artistic creativity and traditions spanning centuries.
Since its founding in 2007 by Elizabeth W. Easton and the late Agnes Gund, CCL has helped transform the cultural landscape by empowering curators to assume leadership roles while maintaining a fundamental commitment to art and the public. Today, more than 500 alumni across 47 countries form an influential global network, with 90 alumni serving or having served as directors of museums and cultural institutions.
Continuing to evolve alongside a changing museum landscape, the CCL Fellowship equips curators with the management skills, perspectives, and professional networks needed to lead with vision and purpose. The rigorous curriculum emphasizes innovative, cross-disciplinary, and values-driven approaches to leadership, with particular attention to the social and civic responsibilities of museums. Through training, collaboration, and exchange, Fellows engage with complex institutional challenges, broaden their approaches to leadership, and develop strategies to advance meaningful change within their organizations and communities.
As CCL celebrates twenty years of the Fellowship, we recognize the extraordinary contributions of the curators who have shaped its history and look ahead to the leadership of those who will define its future. We are proud to welcome the 2027 cohort into a distinguished and growing international network whose work continues to influence museums, cultural institutions, and the broader arts and culture field.
The 2027 Fellows, listed alphabetically, are:
Sam Adams, Ellen Johnson ’33 Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College / Layla Bermeo, John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Kathryn Coney-Ali, Executive Director, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Howard University Gallery of Art / Robyn Farrell, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Kitchen / Samantha Friedman, The Richard Roth Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art / Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, The Whitney Museum of Art / Carmen Hermo, Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Alex Klein, Deborah Dupré Head Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Contemporary Austin / Bernardo Mosqueira, Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Solar / Hallie Ringle, Chief Curator, The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania / Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa, Deputy Director and Curator, Storefront for Art and Architecture / Jennifer Sliwka, Director, Picture Gallery, Kunsthistorisches Museum.
