Joanne Heyler is founding director and president of The Broad, a contemporary art museum co-founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad in downtown Los Angeles. In addition to her role at The Broad, she serves as the director and chief curator of The Broad Art Foundation, which was created in 1984 as a pioneering lending library dedicated to increasing public access to contemporary art through an enterprising loan program and is now headquartered at the museum.
Committed to the Broads’ longtime mission of making contemporary art accessible to the widest possible audience, Ms. Heyler leads The Broad museum with innovative and inclusive approaches to museum programming, audience engagement, and visitor experience. The first entirely new major museum founded in Los Angeles in almost 20 years, Ms. Heyler oversaw every aspect of The Broad’s development from inception. She worked closely with architectural designers Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Gensler and numerous specialists to ensure optimal realization of the 120,000-square-foot building, which houses over 2,000 works in the Broad collection. She guides the museum’s special exhibition programming with a focus on social justice, and has brought groundbreaking exhibitions such as “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” to Los Angeles, as well as Broad-organized monographic shows of artists including William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Takashi Murakami and Keith Haring. The Broad has achieved the Broads’ goal of revitalizing Grand Avenue and has introduced new vast audiences to contemporary art, welcoming nearly 6.5 million visitors since its 2015 grand opening.
The Broad, opened in 2015 in downtown Los Angeles, is a contemporary art museum featuring over 2,000 works from the postwar and contemporary collection of philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad.
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