Profile: Susan K. Freedman, President

Susan K. Freedman is internationally recognized for her vision and ongoing leadership in the field of contemporary public art. As President of the Public Art Fund since 1986, Susan has led the organization in bringing some of the most ambitious and engaging public art initiatives to the people of New York City. She is a recipient of the 1999 Associates of the Art Commission Annual Award , and in 1994, was selected as one of four finalists for the North American Mont Blanc de la Culture award, honoring leading supporters of the arts worldwide. Susan graduated from Brown University in 1982 with a B.A. in Studio Art and American Civilization, and was Assistant to Mayor Edward I. Koch, and Director of Special Projects and Events for the Art Commission of the City of New York from 1983 to 1986. Susan currently serves as Mayor Bloomberg's Representative on the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Modern Art, as well as on the Boards of the Municipal Art Society and WNYC Radio, and as Vice President of the Board for the City Parks Foundation. Most recently, Susan has joined the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, and was a jury member for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's World Trade Center Memorial competition. She received the Municipal Art Society's Evangeline Blashfield Award in 2005.

Profile: Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator

Appointed Director and Chief Curator of the Public Art Fund in September 2009, Nicholas Baume now leads New York City's preeminent presenter of art in the public realm. As Chief Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Baume was responsible for shaping the artistic program from 2003-2009, including the establishment of a permanent collection and the ongoing Momentum project series. The ICA's award-winning new building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro was inaugurated in December 2006 with Super Vision, a 27-artist international exhibition, and the launch of the permanent collection. A native of Australia, Baume was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney before moving to the U.S. in 1998 to become contemporary curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. Past exhibitions at the Atheneum include About Face: Andy Warhol Portraits; Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes; and Noncomposition: Fifteen Case Studies. There he also curated the Matrix series, which included first American solo museum shows by Francis Alÿs, Sam Durant, Thomas Eggerer, Christian Jankowski, Catherine Sullivan, and Fiona Tan. For the ICA, Baume curated exhibitions of the work of Kai Althoff, Kader Attia, Carol Bove, Gerard Byrne, Tara Donovan (with Jen Mergel), Thomas Hirschhorn (with Ralph Rugoff), Anish Kapoor, Lucy McKenzie, and Rodney McMillian, and the group exhibitions Getting Emotional and Super Vision. His recent projects at the Public Art Fund include Statuesque, an international group exhibition of contemporary figurative sculpture, as well as solo projects by Ryan Gander, Eva Rothschild, Rob Pruitt, and the major career survey, Sol LeWitt: Structures 1965 – 2006.