PHILADELPHIA -- Amy Sadao has been appointed the Daniel Dietrich II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1.
The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.
Sadao is currently executive director of Visual AIDS
in New York City. In this position, which she has held for 10 years,
she has built Visual AIDS into one of the most vital and prominent arts
organizations of its kind.
Her accomplishments include staging
hundreds of on-site, traveling and online exhibitions of contemporary
artists and curators, as well as associated catalogues, symposia,
performances and advocacy materials. Also, she expanded the
organization’s attendance, revenues, budget, donor base and strategic
plan and built a board of directors and a team of more than a hundred
interns and volunteers. She has served widely as a consultant and juror
for other arts organizations and as a public speaker and media expert.
“Amy
Sadao promises to be a leader of unparalleled energy and vision for the
next phase of ICA’s growth,” Gutmann said. “She has an especially
strong commitment to forging collaborations across a wide range of
diverse communities and placing art at the center of dialogue about the
most significant intellectual, political, and social issues of the
contemporary world.”
“Amy Sadao has transformed every aspect of
Visual AIDS over the past decade, expanding its leadership in
contemporary art and social advocacy while building the infrastructure
and resources to sustain it for the future,” Price said. “I have been
particularly impressed by her understanding of the role of art in a
research university – and in catalyzing intellectual and
interdisciplinary inquiry in general – as well as by the knowledge she
brings of Penn and Philadelphia.”
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