Bobbi Coller

Bobbi Coller is an art historian, independent curator, and art educator. She received a BS in Education from New York University and a PhD in Art History from The Graduate Center of CUNY. She has taught Modern and Contemporary Art at Long Island University, and has curated over thirty exhibitions including “The Artist’s Mother: Portraits and Homages” which was shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. In addition, several of her exhibitions were circulated throughout the United States by the Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibitions Service. Dr. Coller is Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Pollock Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, NY, and is a member of the Guggenheim Museum Education Committee. Dr. Coller and her husband, Dr. Barry Coller, created an innovative semester-long course for medical students and health professionals entitled “The Pulse of Art: Connections Between the History of Art and the History of Medicine,” offered at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Coller is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.