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The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation

The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, operator of the Watermill Center, seeks to develop new approaches to the arts; to provide young people with opportunities for artistic growth; and to document the work of its Artistic Director, Robert Wilson, and his contemporaries. In addition to the Watermill Center, the Foundation manages the Robert Wilson Archive and the Watermill Collection. The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization chartered in 1969 in the State of New York.

Staff

Board of Directors
Board of Advisors
Artistic Selection Committee
Community Board
Supporting Artists

Staff
Robert Wilson, Artistic Director
Carsten Siebert, Executive Director BHWF, Managing Director RW Work, Ltd.
Jörn Weisbrodt, Director RW Work, Ltd., Creative Director BHWF
Nixon Beltran, Building & Grounds Manager
Sherry Dobbin, Watermill Program Director
Noah Khoshbin, Curator
Dmitry Komis, Art & Auction Manager
Jason Loeffler, Archivist & Technical Manager
Esther C. McGowan, Development
Natascha Theis, Benefit Press & Special Events
Kenji Troelstrup, Accountant
TJ Witham, Executive Assistant & Special Events
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Board of Directors
Stanley Stairs, Esq., Chairman, Stairs Dillenbeck Finley, New York
Irving Benson, Vice Chairman, Patron of the Arts, New York
Alain Coblence, Esq., Secretary, Coblence & Associates, New York
William Kornreich, Treasurer, Kornreich NIA Insurance, New York
Robert Wilson, Artistic Director, New York
Dianne Benson, Patron of the Arts, East Hampton, New York
Pierre Bergé, Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France
Giancarla Berti, Patron of the Arts, Milan, Italy
William Campbell, JPMorgan Chase, New York
Dorothy Cullman, Patron of the Arts, New York
Hélène David-Weill, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Lisa de Kooning, Patron of the Arts, Easthampton, New York
Lisa Dennison, Sotheby's, New York
Simon de Pury, Phillips, de Pury & Partners, New York
Carlton DeWoody, Patron of the Arts, New York
Charles Fabius, Fabius LLC, New York
Jolmer Gerritse, Laaken Asset Management, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Susan D. Goodman, Goodman & Company, New York
Philip Glass, Composer, New York
Gabriele Henkel, Henkel Industries, Dusseldorf, Germany
Holm Keller, Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg, Germany
Jan Kengelbach, Alix Partners, New York
Lummi Kieren, Robert Wilson Stiftung, Hamburg, Germany
Ann Lewis, Patron of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
Sylvia Mazzola, Patron of the Arts, New York
Lyndon Olson, Jr., CitiBank, New York
Joel-Andre Ornstein, Euristates, Inc., New York
Tatiana Platt, Patron of the Arts, New York
Katharine Rayner, Patron of the Arts, New York
Roberta Sherman, Patron of the Arts, Seattle
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Artistic Selection Committee
Marina Abramovic
, Performance Artist, Serbia
Marie-Claude Beaud, Curator and Director of the Musée d?Art Modèrne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Jonathan Safran Foer, Writer, USA
Alanna Heiss, Director, P.S. 1, USA
Jürgen Kluge, Director, McKinsey and Company, Inc., Germany
Xavier Le Roy, Choreographer and Performer, France
Albert Maysles, Filmmaker, USA
Michael Morris, Co-Director, Artangel, and Director, Cultural Industry UK
Gérard Mortier, General Manager of the Opéra de Paris and General Manager elect of the New York City Opera, Belgium
Ida Nicolaisen, Anthropologist and President of the United Nations Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues, Denmark
John Rockwell, Journalist, USA
Christoph Schlingensief, Film Maker, Visual Artist and Theater and Opera Director, Germany
Richard Sennett, Sociologist and Cultural Critic, New York University and London School of Economics, USA
Nike Wagner, Artistic Director, Kunstfest Weimar, Germany
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Board of Advisors
Giorgio Armani
Pierre Bergé
Christophe de Menil
Christoph Eschenbach
Betty Freeman
Philip Glass
Donna Karan
Thomas Krens
Annie Leibovitz
Gérard Mortier
Jessye Norman
Maren Otto
Michael Otto
Claude Pompidou in memoriam
Lou Reed
Isabella Rossellini
Richard Serra
Cindy Sherman
Tom Waits
Richard von Weizsäcker

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Community Board
Maeera Mougin, Chair
Maria Pessino, Honorary Chair
Ruth Applehoff
Dianne Benson
Michael Braverman
Nancy Brunn
Melissa Cohn
Laura Cutillo
Kay Delaney
Christophe de Menil
Luly Duke
Eileen Ekstract
Kimberly Goff
Jack Larsen
Laurie Lambrecht
Susan Lazarus-Reimen
Lys Marigold
Debra McCall
Sara Nightingale
Clifton Nordmeier
Gail Pickering
Elka Rifkin
Michael Rosch
Carole Rosenberg
Sherry Smith
Jonathan Snow
Irene Tulley
Laurie Wiltshire
Hilary Wyler

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Supporting Artists
Marina Abramovic
Louise Bourgeois
Henri Cartier-Bresson in memorian
Cecily Brown
John Chamberlain
Francesco Clemente
Chuck Close
Nan Goldin
Douglas Gordon
David Hockney
Jenny Holzer
Alex Katz
Anselm Kiefer
William Kentridge
Willem de Kooning Foundation
Annie Leibovitz
Sol LeWitt in memoriam
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Jonathon Meese
Shirin Neshat
Enoc Perez
Elizabeth Peyton
James Rosenquist
Lisa Ruyter
David Salle
Dana Schutz
Andres Serrano
Cindy Sherman
Joel Sternfeld
Wolfgang Stiller
James Turrell
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