Elizabeth Neilson Armstrong

Elizabeth Armstrong is an art historian, writer, and curator of modern and contemporary art based in Palm Springs, California. From 2014 to 2018 she was Director of the Palm Springs Art Museum (PSAM); from 2009 to 2014 she was Founding Curator of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts MIA) where she started the Center for Alternative Museum Practice (CAMP). Prior to her MIA post, she served as Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport, California (2000-2008). She also worked as Curator at both the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and the Walker Art Center. In 2007, Armstrong was part of the first group of U.S. curators selected to participate in the Center for Curatorial Leadership, a partnership with Columbia Business School. She is committed to innovative art and artists and has a long track record of acclaimed exhibitions, catalogues, art commissions, and special projects. She has organized over 40 thematic and solo shows and published broadly. Armstrong earned her M.A. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a B.A. in American Studies from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.