NEW YORK, NY.- Dr. Aimee Ng has been appointed to the position of Associate Curator of The Frick Collection, assuming the post in February 2015. This past spring, she was guest curator of the Frick’s critically praised exhibition The Poetry of Parmigianino’s “Schiava Turca,” which recently traveled to the Legion of Honor, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Her accompanying scholarly catalogue offers a new interpretation of Parmigianino’s enigmatic painting and explores the broader scope of female portraits in the Italian Renaissance. At the same time, her work has generated new insights into the Frick’s treasured Italian Renaissance portraits by Titian and Bronzino. Comments, Frick Director Ian Wardropper, “We have tremendously enjoyed working with Aimee Ng over the past two years, and it is with great pleasure that we bring her onto our staff full-time. We anticipate benefiting greatly from her fresh perspective on our collection.” Adds Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, “I very much look forward to welcoming Aimee Ng back to the Frick. She is an exceptional art historian and her breadth of knowledge and communication skills are particularly impressive. She will be an invaluable colleague, and I am thrilled she is joining our distinguished Curatorial Department.”

Ng has previously worked in curatorial departments at The Morgan Library & Museum and at The Frick Collection. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Drawing Institute at The Morgan Library & Museum, where she will be until joining the Frick staff in February, she is currently conducting research for a project titled Parmigianino’s Invention, which studies the artist’s inventive processes in paintings, drawings, and prints. Between 2012 and 2014, Ng held the position of Lecturer at Columbia University, where she was honored with the Meyerson Award for excellence in teaching. At the Frick, apart from her work on the aforementioned exhibition, her research contributed to new discoveries and perspectives on French, Spanish, and Italian drawings for the exhibition Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery (2012) and sculptures for Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection (2014). Ng earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Her dissertation, which she is currently preparing for publication, studied Italian Renaissance artists displaced by the Sack of Rome, including Parmigianino, Rosso Fiorentino, and Sebastiano del Piombo. She has published and lectured widely on this topic and on other aspects of Italian art.