Lynn Zelevansky served as the Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) from 2009-2017. There, she co-curated Hélio Oiticica: To organize Delirium (2016-17) and Paul Thek: Diver (2010-11), instituted a variety of new participatory and experimental programs, and oversaw the successful 2013 Carnegie International. Previously, she was the Terri and Michael Smooke curator and department head, contemporary art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Among the many exhibitions she organized there were Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-68(1998) and Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s. Prior to arriving in Los Angeles in 1995, Zelevansky was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York where she organized Projects shows for artists such as Gabriel Orozco (1993) and Cildo Meireles (1990), and curated Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties (1994).  Zelevansky has published widely on modern and contemporary art. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.