My Journey to Becoming Director of the Honolulu Museum of Art

Sean O’Harrow started his new position as director of the Honolulu Museum of Art in January. He will talk about his path to a job that he calls “the greatest privilege of my life.” From art classes at the museum as a grade schooler to Harvard and Cambridge to director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art — with interesting, unexpected stops in between — O’Harrow traces his steps that have brought him back to Honolulu.

Born in France and raised in Honolulu from the age of three months, Sean O’Harrow graduated from the University Laboratory School (his father is professor of Vietnamese at UH). He has an undergraduate art history degree from Harvard and a doctorate in art history from the University of Cambridge. His previous positions include leading the University of Iowa Museum of Art and the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA, as well as being an Official Fellow and development director of St. Catharine’s College in the University of Cambridge.

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