Neil C. Trager Director
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
SUNY New Paltz
Anna Conlan is a museum worker and art historian who has worked in museums and the arts for more than 20 years, including The Royal Academy of Art in London and The Museum for African Art in New York. During her time as curator and exhibitions manager for The Dorsky Museum, Conlan curated several exhibitions, including “Life After The Revolution: Kate Millett’s Art Colony for Women”, “Totally Dedicated: Leonard Contino, 1940-2016” and “New Folk: Hudson Valley Artists 2020.”
She was a curatorial consultant and catalog author for the award-winning “Art After Stonewall: 1969-89” exhibition that toured nationwide. Conlan’s research on queer feminist cultural history is published in “Feminist Theory Journal and Gender, Sexuality, and Museums: A Routledge Reader.” She holds a Master of Arts in feminism and the visual arts from the University of Leeds, UK, and a Master of Arts in museum anthropology from Columbia University.
