Josine Ianco-Starrels (October 17, 1926 – April 8, 2019) was a Romanian-born American art curator who worked as a museum director in Los Angeles, California.
She was the daughter of Amélie Micheline "Lily" Ackermann and Marcel Janco, who was an artist, an architect and one of the founding members of Dadaism.
[citation needed] Ianco-Starrels started her curatorial career in Los Angeles with Lytton Center of the Visual Arts in 1960.
[2] She was an associate professor at Art Gallery Division at California State University, Los Angeles from 1969 to 1975.
[11] In April 2007, Ianco-Starrels won an ArtScene Special Recognition Award for Non-Artist who made the greatest impact on the California Art Scene in the past 25 years.