Leah Dickerman is the director of research programs at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
[2][3] Serving previously as the museum’s first Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture,[4][5] a post endowed in 2015, Dickerman previously held the positions of curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA (2008–2015), acting head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington, D.C. (2007), and associate curator in modern and contemporary art at the NGA (2001–2007).
Over the course of her career, Dickerman has organized or co-organized a series of exhibitions including One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Works (2015), Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 (2012–2013), Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art (2011–2012), Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity (2009–2010), Dada (2005–2006),[6] and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1998).
Dickerman has served on the editorial board of the journal October[7] since 2001 and has written extensively on European art between the two World Wars.
In 2019, Leah Dickerman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.