Dennis Kois

Dennis Kois

Dennis Kois is an exhibition and graphic designer in the museum field, and since 2008 the director of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States.

Kois co-designed the Galleries of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1999),[1] as well as co-designed museum exhibitions, including the Met's Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years. He was a protege of Jeff Daly, the Chief Designer of the Metropolitan from 1979 to 2006. Additionally, Kois was the internal art director of the Met's website redesign, metmuseum.org, when it launched in 2000. The redesign won both "Best Website" from the American Association of Museums as well as "Best E-Commerce Site" from Advertising Age.[citation needed]

In 2001 Kois became the Chief Designer of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.[2] Between 2001 and 2006 he designed a number of exhibitions, including the costume exhibition "Style and Status".

He was raised and graduated high school from Whitefish Bay High School in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin near Milwaukee, and received a BA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[2][3] and an MA from New York University. He taught in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies at George Washington University from 2001 to 2006.

In 2006 Kois became the Executive Director of the Grace Museum, in Abilene, Texas. He was appointed to the Texas Commission on the Arts visual arts panel for a two-year term in 2007.

In June 2008, Kois became the Director of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts.[4][5][6][7]

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