Maria Nicanor

Maria Nicanor is the director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. An architecture and design curator and historian, Nicanor had previously been an architecture curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and a curator in the Design, Architecture, and Digital Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Following her museum roles, she was the inaugural director of the Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid and executive director of Rice Design Alliance at the Rice University School of Architecture in Houston, Texas.