Juliana Ochs Dweck

Since 2019, Juliana Ochs Dweck has been the chief curator at the Princeton University Art Museum, where she has led a team of curators to reimagine and reinstall the galleries of its new building. Working across ten collections areas, she supports special exhibitions, gallery installations, new acquisitions, research and teaching, and curatorial collaboration.  

Dweck is the curator or co-curator of the exhibitions Toshiko Takaezu: Dialogues in Clay (2025), Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree (2024), Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States (2019), Time Capsule 1970: Rauschenberg’s Currents (2019), Picturing Protest (2018), Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton (2016), and By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War (2016). She writes about museum practice, material culture, and memory, and is the author of Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel (2011).  

Dweck joined the Museum in 2010 as the manager of interpretation and became the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow for Collections Engagement in 2011 and then the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Engagement in 2014. Previously she held positions at the National Museum of American Jewish History, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and her BA and MA from Yale University.