Courtesy The Hyde
Dr. Derin Tanyol, a 19th through 21st century art specialist, has been named curator of modern and contemporary art at The Hyde museum.
She will oversee the contemporary exhibition programming and modern art collections.
Tanyol has spent 15 years in the museum, gallery, and arts administration field. She has curated or produced more than 60 exhibitions, including contributions to exhibitions at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.
Her breadth of experience extends beyond contemporary art to include 19th century American and European painting and printmaking, art of the Woodstock art colony, and the American arts and crafts movement, museum officials said.
“Derin plays an important role in how The Hyde Collection defines the art of our time when museums around the world are rethinking collections and making way for more women and people of color,” said Norman Dascher Jr., the Hyde Collection CEO. “It is our responsibility to build an institution and a curatorial program of equity and inclusion and celebrate and share our rich modern and contemporary collection.”
In August of 2016, The Hyde Collection announced it received its largest donation since Charlotte Pruyn Hyde bequeathed her home and artwork to establish the museum in 1952. The Feibes & Schmitt gift doubled The Hyde’s Modern and Contemporary art holdings, positioning the Museum as a regional hub for postwar art. A new gallery devoted to modern and contemporary art, aptly named the Feibes & Schmitt Gallery, opened in June 2017.
For more than four decades, the late Werner Feibes and James Schmitt amassed a world-class art collection that aligned with their tastes and interest in non-objective art, pop art, abstract art, and minimalism.
“Between the creation of the new modern and contemporary curatorial line at The Hyde and the museum’s visionary Reimagine initiative, The Hyde is charging forward with making the museum experience more inclusive and relevant,” said Tanyol. “I look forward to working with the staff and board to create shows that will highlight the superlative collections at The Hyde and introduce audiences to some of the most important artists working today.”
She joins The Hyde after many years as director of exhibitions and programs at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. This multidisciplinary arts organization hosts exhibitions, an artist-in-residence program, classes, and performances. She curated or produced eight exhibitions annually of contemporary and historic art, including three outdoor sculpture shows on Byrdcliffe’s historic grounds.
She has published on 19th and 20th century French and American art and lectured at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the New York State Museum, the Frick Collection, and many public conferences. Tanyol received a Fulbright Scholarship, a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, and a Bourse Chateaubriand for two years of research in Paris.
Tanyol received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University.