Ann Sumner is an art historian, exhibition curator, author and former museum director.
She is currently Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University [1] and Chair of the Methodist Modern Art Collection.
[3][4] She was Historic Collections Adviser at Harewood House Trust, where she led the Chippendale 300 celebrations (2015–2018).
[10] Before her directorship at the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, she was Head of Fine Art at National Museum Wales, for seven years (2000–2007).
[9] She contributed a chapter on International Tennis Art to the Routledge Handbook of Tennis in 2019 [13] Her current research interests include public art by the American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe in the 1950s and her book on Cunliffe in Manchester will be published by Manchester Metropolitan University Press in autumn 2020.