Randall Griffey is the program director for American Art at the Henry Luce Foundation. A native of Edmond, Kansas, Randy earned a B.A. in Fine Arts (Painting) at Bethany College (Lindborg, KS), before completing his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS), where he focused doctoral studies (and subsequent scholarship and exhibition work) on American modernist Marsden Hartley. He began his curatorial career at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri) and was subsequently appointed Curator of American Art at the Mead Art Museum (Amherst College). From 2013 – 2022, Randy was Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he executed, among other projects, Kent Monkman—mistikộsiwak (Wooden Boat People), the museum’s Great Hall commission of a monumental diptych that recast the history of North America/Turtle Island from a Cree perspective and, with Kelly Baum, Alice Neel: People Come First. He comes to the Luce Foundation from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where he has served as Head Curator since 2022.