Amy Barrett-Lennard is an experienced leader of arts organisations across Australia and internationally.
She has been the director of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts from April 2006 to August 2022. Prior to that, Ms Barrett-Lennard was director of the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, curator of the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery in Victoria, curator of the Goldfields Arts Centre Gallery in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia, and manager of the British Pavilion at the 1995 Venice Biennale.
Ms Barrett-Lennard is a regular contributor to the broader national arts and cultural communities. She has sat on numerous boards and panels including those for the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, NETS Victoria, Museums Australia, the Victorian College of the Arts, Art on the Move and the federal government’s Visions of Australia program, Murdoch University Art Collection, Edith Cowan University’s CREATEC (Centre of Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications), the Chamber of Arts and Culture WA, and was president of the Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia network.
Ms Barrett-Lennard holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Art History Major) from the University of Western Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Post-war and Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute, London.
