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Annelise K. Madsen

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Annelise K. Madsen, Gilda and Henry Buchbinder Curator, Arts of the Americas, joined the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and specializes in US painting, sculpture, and visual culture. She is particularly interested in elevating historical women artists—studying artworks in the permanent collection, stewarding acquisitions, developing exhibitions and programming, and presenting new research in an effort to recover and revalue the contributions and stories of female makers. She is co-curator of Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks” (2024–25). She is also preparing an exhibition on Mary Cassatt. Annelise curated and authored John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age (2018) and has co-curated and contributed to a number of other exhibitions and publications at the Art Institute. Additionally, she has contributed essays to such publications as Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition (2011), American Art, and Winterthur Portfolio. Annelise holds a PhD in art history from Stanford University and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis.

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