Grynsztejn to move to Chicago

Madeleine Grynsztejn, senior curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has been appointed director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

The seventh director and the first woman to lead the 40-year-old institution, Grynsztejn will assume her new position early next spring, succeeding Robert Fitzpatrick, who announced his resignation in March.

Grynsztejn, 45, began her curatorial career at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and moved on to the Art Institute of Chicago. In San Francisco, her current exhibition is a retrospective of Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s work.