Lynne Cooke is the curator of the Dia Art Foundation in New York. She received her PhD in art history from the University of London and has taught and lectured regularly at the University College London, Syracuse University, Yale University, and Columbia University.
She was a cocurator of the Venice Biennale in 1986 and the Carnegie International in 1991, and she was artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney in 1996. She has curated exhibitions at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Whitechapel Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery, London; Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and elsewhere. She has written widely about contemporary art in exhibition catalogs and in Artforum, Artscribe, and Parkett, among other magazines.
Visited the Curatorial Models and Professional Development courses