Joanne Stuhr

As an art historian and independent curator, Joanne Stuhr has worked with major museums and private collections throughout the United States, in Mexico, and Europe. She has curated over one-hundred exhibitions and written or contributed essays to more than fifteen books and publications in her areas of expertise. With over 30 years of professional art management experience, Stuhr heads two major private collections of Precolumbian art.

Stuhr’s books include Traveling/Discovering: Fine Precolumbian Art from the Stuart Handler Collection; Talking Birds, Plumed Serpents and Painted Women: Prehistoric Ceramics of Casas Grandes; Heaven, Hell, and the Places in Between: Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection; Ritual Beauty: Art of the Ancient Americas; Reflections: Precolumbian Inspiration in Mexican Silver Design; and The Figure Examined in American and European Art of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries.