Christina Hunter, executive director of the Nancy Graves Foundation since 2011, oversees the foundations art collections and archives, administers its annual grant program and collaborates with scholars, museums and galleries to research and curate exhibitions. 

The Nancy Graves Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, was established and endowed through a provision of the artist’s last will and testament. Nancy Graves (1939-1995) is an American artist of international renown whose work has been featured in hundreds of notable exhibitions and is in the permanent collections of major art museums. Based in SoHo and fully engaged with the cultural and intellectual issues of her time, Graves is recognized as a leading conceptual artist and post-minimalist sculptor. The foundation is currently located in Long Island City. More information can be found at:  www.nancygravesfoundation.org

Deeply committed to the long-term stewardship of artists’ artwork and legacies, Christina Hunter has addressed the challenges and issues inherent to this mission as a panelist and presenter at artist’s legacy conferences as well as when lecturing about Nancy Graves’ life and work. She has contributed essays about Graves to numerous catalogues including those published by the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, the Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery in New York, and the Ceysson & Bénétiere Gallery in Paris and Luxembourg, among others.

She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2003 with a dissertation that examined the relevance of German Romantic literary theories of the fragment for Kurt Schwitters’ collage practice, and was an adjunct professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology through 2014. Fluent in French and German, she has also been a lecturer and researcher for major academic and cultural institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Neue Galerie, the Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute and Barnard College among many others, as well as for corporate and private clients.

Exhibiting as Christina Stahr, her artwork is based on the concepts and techniques of collage and combines segments of personal meaning with fragments of cultural and historical significance. Her work has been shown internationally and is in public, corporate, and private collections.