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Heidi Zuckerman        

CEO and Director, Orange County Museum of Art & Host of "About Art" Podcast

Heidi Zuckerman is a globally recognized leader in contemporary art and the first woman to build two art museums.

As CEO and Director of OCMA/The Orange County Museum of Art, she is envisioning a twenty-first-century museum. Zuckerman built a new, ground-up project with Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Thom Mayne on time and on budget, raised more than $35 million in her first 20 months in the role, and welcomed more visitors to the museum in the first week of operations than previous annual attendance.

Zuckerman is also the former fourteen-year CEO and Director of the Aspen Art Museum, which she reimagined as a world-class institution, raised more than $130 million, and built a new, highly acclaimed museum with Shigeru Ban, the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner. From 1999–2005, she was Chair of the Curatorial Department at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Previously, she was a curator at the Jewish Museum in New York.

Zuckerman has curated more than two hundred exhibitions during her extensive career, including early, important, and often first museum shows of artists who have now come to define our time. She also hosts the podcast "About Art," which has over 100 episodes, and is the author of numerous books, including the "Conversations with Artists" book series.

Zuckerman additionally served as Chair of the YPO Art Network. She earned a BA in European History from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Art History from Hunter College at CUNY, and a Harvard Business School Executive Education Women on Boards Certification.

Speech Topics


Women and Entrepreneurship

Mindfulness and Entrepreneurialism

Art and Mental Health

Art and Community Building

How Art can help with Daily Life

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Everything About This Laguna Beach Home Is Oriented Toward the Ocean
Towards the end of Heidi Zuckerman’s 15-year tenure as the CEO and director of the Aspen Art Museum, she decided to look for a property in Laguna Beach, California. Heidi wasn’t sure if the place would serve as a vacation home or a primary residence, but she was drawn to the West Coast locale and wanted to spend more time there. It was only after she purchased a 1974 upside down house that the Orange County Museum of Art offered her their top job.

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