Melissa Chiu

Melissa Chiu is director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the national museum of modern and contemporary art in Washington, D.C. She is a world-renowned expert on modern and contemporary art, with a Ph.D. in art history. She has worked with some of the world’s best-known artists to curate or commission groundbreaking exhibitions of their work.

Peran Terkenal

The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist