Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D. (Yale College BA, 1978) is a painter, art historian and curator. He is Curator of The Maurice Sendak Foundation. He has taught in Yale’s History of Art Department and in its Art School for an aggregate of over twenty years. He is the author of several books including Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront and Ambition and Love in American Art. His writings have appeared in Art in America, Art Forum, The Yale Journal of Criticism and in numerous museum catalogs. In 2019 he was the lead curator of the award winning touring exhibition, Art After Stonewall 1969-89. He is the curator of the 2023-24 touring exhibition, Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak. He was the recipient of many fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship and he was the artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Center in 2002-3. In 2022 an exhibition of his GENESIS window paintings and prints was on view at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven.
