Dara Meyers-Kingsley

Dara Meyers-Kingsley is the Founding Director of the Office of the Arts which was established in 2016. She currently serves as the liaison for the college’s partnerships with arts and cultural institutions throughout NYC. She is also the Director of the Muse Scholar Program, an honors program for high achieving students with talents in the arts. She previously served as the Director of the Mellon Arts Fellowship Program and the Arts Across the Curriculum initiative at Hunter. She has extensive experience as a contemporary art curator with an interdisciplinary curatorial practice. Her exhibitions, often including visual art, media, installation, and performance have been presented at  LA MOCA, MCA Chicago, The New Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, Miami MOCA, the Brooklyn Museum and the Mattress Factory. Previously, she was Director of the Film and Video Collections for the Andy Warhol Foundation and curator of Film and Video at the Brooklyn Museum.  Ms. Meyers-Kingsley has lectured on media art history in the United States and abroad and is the author of museum catalogues and articles on Adrian Piper, Andy Warhol, 1970s video art, public art and contemporary media. As an educator she has taught aspiring artists in Parsons’ MFA Studio Art Program, undergraduates in Hunter’s Macaulay Honors College and, since 2011, the first year Muse Scholars.