Alumna Clarisse Fava-Piz (PhD 2022) has been appointed the new Curator of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. She will help steward the Phillips’s internationally recognized modern art collection and collaborate across departments to create dynamic exhibitions and fresh scholarship that foster more inclusive narratives about modern art within a global context. Clarisse’s work will focus on expanding the modernist canon through transnational and interdisciplinary approaches that resonate with contemporary audiences.
Fava-Piz comes to the Phillips from the Denver Art Museum, where she served as Associate Curator of European and American Art Before 1900 and co-curated The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism (2025) in collaboration with the Museum Barberini, Potsdam. She has also held roles at the Musée du Louvre, the National Gallery of Art, and the Getty Research Institute. From 2021 to 2023, she was a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Meadows Museum, where she curated In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art and edited its accompanying catalogue. Among her recent publications, she contributed to the Camille Claudel exhibition catalogue (Getty Publications, 2023), which earned the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award from the College Art Association.
Read more about Clarisse’s appointment on the Phillips Collection website