Authors

Arianna Ray was the 2021–22 Mellon Foundation COSI Intern in Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Michal Raz-Russo is programs director at the Gordon Parks Foundation and editor of Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize publications. She is editor of and a contributor to Devin Allen: Baltimore (2025), Jamel Shabazz: Albums (2023), Ralph Ellison: Photographer (2023), and LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2022). Previously she was the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she curated the exhibitions Subscribe: Artists and Alternative Magazines, 1970–1995 (2021–22) and Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980 (2018), among others.

Heather Reinholtz is the executive director of Retail and Dining at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Nicolas Revire is presently the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Research Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Pérside Omena Ribeiro is a conservator-restorer, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, and managing partner of Grifo Diagnóstico e Preservação de Bens Culturais Ltda.

The museum’s President and Eloise W. Martin Director since January 2016, James Rondeau began his time with the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 as associate curator of contemporary art.

Lynn Rother is the Lichtenberg-Professor for Provenance Studies and the Director of the Provenance Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany.

Diane Rousseau is a conservator in private practice, based on the campus of Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. Among her most recent projects is the treatment of the Hartwell Memorial Window upon its acquisition by the Art Institute of Chicago.

Rachel Joy Echiverri Rowland is the assistant director for Academic Engagement and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Katrina Rush is a paintings conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she cares for work in the Modern and Contemporary Art collection.

Kloie Rush-Spratt (xe/xem/xyr) is a Learning Partnerships and Resources educator in the Ryan Learning Center.

Bart Ryckbosch is the Glasser and Rosenthal Family Archivist in the Research Center of the Art Institute.

Rachel Sabino is director of Objects and Textiles Conservation in the Department of Conservation and Science.

Since 2017, Kevin Salatino has served as Chair and Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings, where he recently curated the exhibition Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection.

Hannah Samoy is a McMullan Undergraduate Curatorial Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago working in Modern and Contemporary Art.