Gloria Groom

Gloria Groom is chair and Winton Green Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe, and executive director of initiatives in France at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since joining the museum in 1985, she has been involved in numerous major monographic exhibitions and their accompanying catalogues, including Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World (2025), the full-career retrospective Cezanne (2022), Monet and Chicago (2020–21), Manet and Modern Beauty (2019), Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist (2017), Van Gogh’s Bedrooms (2016), Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity (2012–13), and Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte” (2004). 

Gloria continues to oversee monographic online scholarly catalogues on the museum’s Impressionist collection involving an international team of scholars, conservators, and scientists. To date she has written for and edited volumes on Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Caillebotte, Gauguin, Manet, and Cezanne. Her contributions to French art and culture have been recognized by the French Republic, which named her Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2012. In 2016 she was further recognized by the French, receiving a medal as Chevalier (Knight) in the Legion of Honor.