David Kratz, President
David Kratz is a painter and the President of the New York Academy of Art. In 2008, he received an MFA from the Academy, where he focused on figurative art and won the Vasari Prize for best-in-show painting at the MFA Thesis exhibition. Kratz has shown in group exhibitions at the New York Academy of Art, Lodge Gallery and Sotheby’s, and at Eden Rock Gallery in St. Barth. Prior to attending the Academy, Kratz was the founder and CEO of Magnet Communications, a leading public relations firm. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston University School of Law, Kratz has served on the boards of Citymeals-on-Wheels, the Lifelines Center, and the New Group, as well as helping to found One Day’s Pay. He became president of the Academy in 2009, and since then developed a new strategic plan, spearheaded a facilities renovation and expansion, overseen the Academy’s accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and organized some of the most successful fundraising events the Academy has seen.
Peter Drake, Provost
Peter Drake was appointed Provost in January 2018 and previously served as the Dean of Academic Affairs since 2010 at the New York Academy of Art. Drake continues to be a Thesis Advisor having previously taught at Parsons the New School for Design, the School of Visual Arts, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. As a visual artist his work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US, China and Europe, including solo shows at Linda Warren Projects (Chicago) and District & Co. (Dominican Republic) and group shows at Bernarducci Gallery (New York), Sloan Fine Art (New York / LA) and the Phoenix Museum of Art. He has curated exhibitions for the New York Academy of Art, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Parsons and the Drawing Center. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts Award and a MTA Arts for Transit Public Art Commission. His work is the public collections of the Whitney Museum, the Phoenix Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Achenbach Collection and the Los Angeles County Art Museum. Drake maintains a studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn through the Two Trees Cultural Space Program and is represented by Bernarducci Gallery, New York and Linda Warren Projects, Chicago.
Board of Trustees
| Eileen Guggenheim, Ph.D., Chair
David Schafer, Vice Chair David Kratz, President, ex officio Richard Segal, Treasurer Ippolita Rostagno, Secretary
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Curtis Bashaw
Alain Bernard Nicolas Bos Bob Cochran Valerie Cooper Izabela Depczyk Sara Dodd Laura Doyle Eric Fischl Bridget Gless Keller
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Alexander Gilkes
Margot Gordon Sharon Jacob Helen King Kamie Lightburn Alina Lundry Alyssa Monks Bob O’Leary Nicole Salmasi Jennifer Schipf |
Sybil Shainwald
Brooke Shields Sam Shikiar Hank Snyder Jonathan Tibett Susan Wasserstein Russell Wilkinson
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Trustees EmeritiGordon Bethune Richard Blumenthal
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President’s
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Artist
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