Terence Riley

Terence Riley is Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He studied architecture at the University of Notre Dame and Columbia University and established an architectural practice with John Keenen before joining the museum. Keenen/Riley’s work has been published and exhibited widely. In 1989, Mr. Riley curated Paul Nelson: Filter of Reason, the inaugural exhibition at the Arthur Ross Architecture Galleries at Columbia University, where he served as Director until 1991. In October of 1991, Mr. Riley joined MoMA, and was appointed Chief Curator in September of 1992. He was a Staff Liaison to MoMA’s Architect Selection Committee, which announced in December of 1997 the appointment of Yoshio Taniguchi to design the new Museum. Mr. Riley is a frequent contributor to journals and other publications on design. He is also involved in many competition juries, including the WTC, the 9/11 memorial at the Pentagon, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Motown Museum.