Barbara Bloemink
Dr. Barbara Bloemink is the Curatorial Director of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, where she has organized exhibitions such as the groundbreaking Design ≠ Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread; Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser; Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection; Solos: FutureShack; and Fashion in Colors. She is currently one of four curators organizing the 2006 National Design Triennial: Design Life Now, opening at Cooper-Hewitt in December. She has previously served as the originating Director of the Guggenheim Hermitage and the Guggenheim Las Vegas museums and as Director and Chief Curator of the Hudson River Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia.

Bloemink has received Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in art history from Yale University and an M.A. in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century painting and sculpture from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU).