The Drawing Center Executive Director has been a curator of contemporary art and a leading paricipant in the international art conversation for three decades. She comes to the Drawing Center after eight years as a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, an institution where she also began her career in the 1990s as a curator with a specialty in drawing. Included among the dozens of exhibitions that Hoptman has curated, are “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions”, a landmark exhibition of contemporary figurative drawing at MoMA; retrospectives of the work of Yayoi Kusama, Isa Genzken, Henry Taylor, Bruce Conner, and Elizabeth Peyton, and the 54th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.