Aimee Ng

Aimee Ng
Born
Manila, Philippines[1]
Education
OccupationsArt historian, museum curator
EmployerFrick Collection
Known forScholarship on Italian Renaissance painting, particularly Parmigianino, Renaissance portraiture, and artists displaced by the Sack of Rome[2][4]
TitlePeter Jay Sharp Chief Curator
TermNovember 2025–present[5]
PredecessorXavier F. Salomon[5]
AwardsMedal in Art, Queen's University (2005)[2]
Meyerson Award for excellence in teaching[4]

Aimee Ng is a Canadian art historian, curator, author, and podcaster.[6] Her work centers on Italian Renaissance art, with a particular focus on painting, collecting histories, and the interpretation of early modern European art for contemporary audiences.[7]

She is the Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection in New York City, where she has organized exhibitions, contributed to scholarship, and participated in public-facing museum programs.[8][9][10][11]

In 2025, the museum appointed her chief curator, succeeding Xavier Salomon, who became director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.[12][13]

Early life and education

Ng was born in Manila to Philippine-Chinese parents and moved to Canada as an infant before later studying and working in New York.[14]

She graduated from Queen's University at Kingston in 2005 with a BFA, receiving the Medal in Art.[15] After Queen's, she moved to New York City for graduate study at Columbia University, where she developed her specialization in Italian Renaissance art.

She received an MA in 2006, an MPhil in 2009, and a PhD in art history in 2012.[16][17] Her early academic formation included both studio practice and historical research, a combination later reflected in her curatorial work on Renaissance painting, drawing, and portraiture.[18]

Career

Before joining the Frick Collection, Ng worked at the Morgan Library and Museum and taught art history at Columbia University.[19] Her early curatorial work included The Poetry of Parmigianino's "Schiava Turca", an exhibition organized for the Frick in 2014 that later traveled to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.[20] The museum appointed her associate curator in 2015, and she later became curator.[21]

At the Frick, Ng's work has included exhibitions, permanent-collection interpretation, publishing, and public programs. She has organized and contributed to projects centered on Renaissance painting and portraiture, including the Frick's presentation of Giovanni Battista Moroni, and has also worked on exhibitions that place Old Master traditions in dialogue with later artists.[22] In 2023, she organized Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick with consulting curator Antwaun Sargent, an exhibition that considered Hendricks's portraits in relation to European painting traditions represented in the Frick's collection.[23]

Along with Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon, Ng helped shape the 2021 installation of the collection at Frick Madison, the museum's temporary home during the renovation of the Henry Clay Frick House.[24][25][26][27] She described the Madison installation as an opportunity to respond to the Brutalist architecture of the former Whitney Museum of American Art building, using a smaller number of objects and allowing works from the collection to be seen in new spatial relationships.[28]

Ng has also written for The Brooklyn Rail, where her essays have addressed old-master paintings, conservation, and the physical presence of historical works of art.[29]

Cocktails with a Curator

From April 2020 to July 2021,[30] Ng co-hosted the online program "Cocktails with a Curator" with chief curator Xavier F. Salomon, which examined artwork at the Frick.[31][32][33] In this program, they provided virtual museum tours and lectures, while drinking cocktails.[33][32][34][35][36] The Wall Street Journal characterized the program as "immensely popular" and "reaching an enormous audience".[37]

The program ran for 66 episodes, which are available on YouTube.[38] In 2021, Jason Farago of The New York Times wrote that their show "became appointment viewing at Friday martini hour".[33] That same year, Cocktails with a Curator was named an Honoree in the 25th Annual Webby Awards from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for Best Virtual & Remote Experiences: Arts & Culture and jointly awarded a Global Fine Arts Award for Best Digital Exhibition or Online Education Program.[39]

In 2022, the book Cocktails with a Curator, by Salomon with Ng and Giulio Dalvit, was published by Rizzoli Electra.[40]

Ng also co-hosted "Travels with a Curator",[31][32] which had 20 episodes and ran from April 2020 to September 2020. The episodes are also available on YouTube.[41]

Publications

  • Ng, Aimee (2014). The Poetry of Parmigianino's Schiava Turca. The Frick Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
  • Ng, Aimee (2017). The Pursuit of Immortality: Masterpieces from the Scher Collection of Portrait Medals. New York: The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited. ISBN 978-1911282068.
  • Ng, Aimee; Galansino, Arturo; Facchinetti, Simone (2019). Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture (Hardcover). New York, NY: Frick Collection in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-1785511851. Catalogue accompanying exhibition at the Frick Collection
  • Ng, Aimee; Noelle, Alexander J.; Salomon, Xavier F. (2019). Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence (Hardcover). London, United Kingdom: The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited. ISBN 9781911282433. Catalogue accompanying exhibition at the Frick Collection
  • Kentridge, William; Ng, Aimee (2020). John Constable's White Horse (Frick Diptych). GILES. ISBN 9781911282709.[42][43]
  • Salomon, Xavier, with Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit (2022). Cocktails with a Curator: The Frick Collection. New York: Rizzoli Electa. ISBN 9780847872466[44]
  • Aimee Ng; Xavier F. Salomon; Stephen Truax (2023). Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters. The Frick Collection.
  • Daniel Mendelsohn and Aimee Ng (2023). Bronzino’s Lodovico Capponi. The Frick Collection.
  • Aimee Ng and Antwaun Sargent (2023). Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at The Frick. The Frick Collection.
  • Aimee Ng, with Giulio Dalvit and Marie-Laure Buku Pongo (2024). The Frick Collection: Essential Guide. The Frick Collection in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, New York.
  • Aimee Ng and Kari Rayner (2026). Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture. The Frick Collection.
  • Aimee Ng and Isaac Mizrahi (2026). Gainsborough's Hon. Frances Duncombe. The Frick Collection.

References

  1. ↑ Ng, Aimee (19 July 2022). ""We returned the gilt handle to the V&A—but I kept the feathers"". Nicholas Hall. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Aimee Ng (BFA '05)". Queen's University. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
  3. ↑ "PhD in Art History and Archaeology: Alumni/ae". Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Aimee Ng, Organizer of Acclaimed Schiava Turca Exhibition, Named an Associate Curator at The Frick Collection". The Frick Collection. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Aimee Ng Appointed Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection". The Frick Collection. 6 October 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Aimee Ng". Disegno LLC. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  7. ↑ "Meet 6 Visionary Women Shaping the Art World in 2026". Galerie. Retrieved 14 August 2026.
  8. ↑ The Frick Collection Staff
  9. ↑ "Aimee Ng". The Frick Collection. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  10. ↑ Libbey, Peter (25 July 2018). "Unheralded Renaissance Painter to Have Major Exhibition at the Frick". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  11. ↑ Scott Reyburn (25 September 2023). "Unesco controversies; Fernando Botero; Barkley Hendricks". The Week in Art (Podcast). Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  12. ↑ "Frick Appoints New Chief Curator"
  13. ↑ Maximilíano Durón (6 October 2025). "New York's Frick Collection Names New Chief Curator". ART News.
  14. ↑ "Aimee Ng". HENI News. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  15. ↑ "Aimee Ng, BFA '05". Queen's University. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  16. ↑ "Aimee Ng, BFA '05". Queen's University. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  17. ↑ "PhD Alumni/ae 2000-Present: Current Positions". Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  18. ↑ "Aimee Ng, Organizer of Acclaimed Schiava Turca Exhibition, Named an Associate Curator at The Frick Collection" (PDF). The Frick Collection. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  19. ↑ "Weekly Shuffle: Changes at Frieze and More". artnet News. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  20. ↑ "Aimee Ng, Organizer of Acclaimed Schiava Turca Exhibition, Named an Associate Curator at The Frick Collection". The Frick Collection. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  21. ↑ Miller, M. H. (16 September 2014). "Frick Names Aimee Ng Associate Curator". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  22. ↑ Libbey, Peter (25 July 2018). "Unheralded Renaissance Painter to Have Major Exhibition at the Frick". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  23. ↑ "Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick". The Frick Collection. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  24. ↑ Yablonsky, Linda (17 March 2021). "Beauty in the Brutalist beast: a critic's view of the Frick Madison". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  25. ↑ "The Frick to Reopen in Early 2021 at 'Frick Madison'". ArtfixDaily. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  26. ↑ "Frick Collection opens in Marcel Breuer-designed temporary new home, Frick Madison". Archinect News Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  27. ↑ The Frick Madison closed in March 2024, and the Henry Clay Frick House is scheduled to reopen late in 2024
  28. ↑ Duray, Dan (17 February 2024). "Aimee Ng on the Frick's Return to Fifth Avenue". Observer. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  29. ↑ Ng, Aimee (6 October 2020). "Embarrassment of Edges". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  30. ↑ "Final YouTube Episode," July 16, 2021
  31. 1 2 Wilkin, Karen (4 July 2020). "The Staying Inside Guide: Raise a Glass to Art History". The Wall Street Journal.
  32. 1 2 3 Marius, Marley (1 May 2020). "How Art Galleries and Museums Are Bringing Their Collections to Virtual Audiences". Vogue. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  33. 1 2 3 Farago, Jason (25 February 2021). "The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  34. ↑ Smee, Sebastian (6 May 2020). "4 portals to creative greatness — all from the comfort of your couch". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  35. ↑ "Keep calm during Covid, Museums and meditation at home". Artblog. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  36. ↑ Litt, Steven (17 January 2021). "Leery about visiting galleries, museums, in a pandemic? Check out online possibilities recommended by local arts leaders". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  37. ↑ Wilkin, Karen (13 December 2020). "How Art Lovers Weathered the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  38. ↑ "Cocktails with a Curator". YouTube. The Frick Collection. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  39. ↑ "Frick's Cocktails with a Curator Honored by the Webby Awards and Global Fine Arts Awards". Arts & Architecture Quarterly. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  40. ↑ Ajudua, Christine (14 October 2022). "Bottoms Up, Bronzino! The Frick Has a New Book Pairing Classic Cocktails With Masterpieces From Its Collection". ArtNet. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  41. ↑ "Travels with a Curator". The Frick Collection. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  42. ↑ Editorial Staff (28 January 2021). "Constable's 'White Horse' Subject of Latest Frick Book". New York Almanack. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  43. ↑ Bailey, Colin B. (13 May 2021). "Masterpieces Unmediated". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  44. ↑ Schaap, Rosie (2 December 2022). "Excuse Me, What Cocktail Would You Suggest With This Monet?". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
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