Norman L. Kleeblatt is the Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator of The Jewish Museum, New York. Kleeblatt curated the exhibition "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976" (Jewish Museum 2008) and edited the catalogue that accompanied the show, which traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2008-2009). "Action/Abstraction" won numerous awards including Best Thematic Museum Show in New York City from The International Art Critics Association (2009); Outstanding Exhibition (Eastern Time Zone) from the Association of Art Museum Curators (2009). The exhibition catalogue also received an honorable mention from the Banister Fletcher Award committee (2009). Among Kleeblatt's numerous other exhibitions are: "The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth and Justice” (1987); "Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities" (1996); "John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family" (2000), and “Theaters of Memory: Art and the Holocaust” (2008). He was co-curator for "An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine" (1998) and "Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900–1945" (1991). Kleeblatt's articles have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Art Journal, and Art News. He has been honored with support from the Getty Research Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Mr. Kleeblatt currently serves on the boards of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School and the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).