Charlotte Eyerman
Charlotte Eyerman | |
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| Born | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Curator, museum director |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Known for | Director and Chief Curator for the JPMorgan Chase art collection; former Director and CEO of the Monterey Museum of Art; former Director of the Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills |
| Notable work | Courbet and the Modern Landscape (2006), Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns (2002), Cubisti cubismo (2013) |
Charlotte Nalle Eyerman is an American curator and museum director with expertise in 19th-century French art. Since 2017, she has held the position of Director and Chief Curator for the JPMorgan Chase art collection. Eyerman also contributes as a trustee on the board of Accountability Lab. Her previous leadership roles include serving as Director and CEO of the Monterey Museum of Art from 2010 to 2013, as well as Director of the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.
In recognition of her contributions to cultural diplomacy, Eyerman was honored in 2014 with the title of Chevalier (Knight) in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Biography
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Eyerman is the daughter of artist and psychotherapist Sun Smith-Foret and neurologist Edward L. Eyerman, Jr. She completed her master's degree in 1990 and earned a PhD in Art History in 1997 from the University of California, Berkeley. Between 1994 and 2001, she was a faculty member teaching Art History at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
Eyerman led the French American Museum Exchange (FRAME) North America from 2010 to 2013 and held the role of Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the St. Louis Art Museum between 2006 and 2009. During her tenure there, she managed the acclaimed installation Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976. Prior to this, she served as Assistant Curator of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum from 2002 until 2006. In 2013, she assumed the role of executive director at the Monterey Museum of Art.
As an independent curator, Eyerman organized notable exhibitions such as Just Add Water at the Natural History Museum Los Angeles County (2013–2015), Cubisti Cubismo at Rome’s Vittoriano (2011–2013), as well as Pacific Standard Time and Artistic Evolution at the Natural History Museum Los Angeles County (2010–2012). In 2012, she presented a TEDx talk entitled "Artist as Muse" in Santa Monica, California.
Work
In collaboration with Mary Morton, associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Eyerman coauthored the 2006 exhibition catalogue Courbet and the Modern Landscape. This publication explored Gustave Courbet’s landscapes organized by geographic features, providing innovative insights into his oeuvre. The book was well received by critics from publications including Library Journal and The Art Book, who praised its usefulness for both public institutions and private collectors.
Her 2002 volume, Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns, highlights key French artists featured in the State Pushkin Museum in Moscow, underscoring its importance within both art markets and institutional holdings.
Publications
- The Composition of Femininity: The Significance of the 'Woman at the Piano' Motif in 19th-Century French Culture from Daumier to Renoir (Ph.D. Dissertation), University of California at Berkeley, 1997
- Courbet and the Modern Landscape (coauthored with Mary Morton), hardcover edition, 2006, ISBN 978-0-89236-836-5
- Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow (with Irina Antonova, Eugenya Georgievskaya, and Elena Sharnova), cloth edition, 2002, ISBN 9780300097368
- Cubisti cubismo, curated by Charlotte Eyerman, Milano: Skira, 2013, ISBN 8857219038
- Essay in Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780300139204
Honors
In 2014, Eyerman received the distinction of Chevalier (Knight) within France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.