Ian Alteveer joined the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in September 2023 as the Beal Family Chair of Contemporary Art, where he leads the department focused on art made after 1955 and is currently working Martin Puryear: Nexus, a 50-year survey of the American sculptor Martin Puryear for September 2025.  Until August 2023, he was the inaugural Aaron I. Fleischman Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he curated the recent survey Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid (2023), as well as retrospectives for Kerry James Marshall (2016), Marisa Merz (2017), David Hockney (2017–18), and Vija Celmins (2019–20).  At The Met he also co-organized the 2018 exhibition Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy and the 2021 installation Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room.  Alteveer is a graduate of Stanford University and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.  He serves on the boards of Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado, and the New York-based artist grant-maker Artadia and was a 2020 Fellow at New York’s Center for Curatorial Leadership.