Laura Giles

Laura M. Giles joined the Princeton University Art Museum in 2000, and in 2010 was appointed its inaugural Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings. Her scholarly fields of interest are Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, and Western drawings and prints from the sixteenth century to the present, on which she has published numerous articles.  

Giles has curated a wide range of exhibitions of works on paper at the Museum, including Cézanne in Focus: Watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection (2002) and 500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum (2014), both of which were accompanied by publications. In addition to organizing numerous gallery rotations of prints and drawings, most recently she co-curated the special exhibition States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing (2019–20). Future projects include research on the Museum’s British drawings and watercolors.  

Prior to joining the Museum, Giles held curatorial positions at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas and the Art Institute of Chicago. She attended Swarthmore College and Williams College and received her PhD in art history from Harvard University.