Guy Cogeval
Guy Cogeval has been director of The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since 1998. In this position, he is responsible for artistic leadership and executive management of one of Canada’s oldest and most distinguished art museums. There, he has curated or overseen such critically acclaimed exhibitions as The Triumph of the Baroque (with the NGA, Washington), Hitchcock and Art (with the Centre Pompidou, Paris), Picasso Érotique (with the Musée Picasso, Paris) and Richelieu: Art and Power (with the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne).
Prior to becoming director of The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Guy Cogeval was director of the Musée National des monuments français, in Paris (1992–1998), where he was named Conservateur en chef du patrimoine (1996). He was for twelve years professor of art history (nineteenth century) at the École du Louvre. Previous positions include curator in the education department at the Musée du Louvre, curator at the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, and curator-in-training at the Musée d’Orsay. Earlier, he was awarded a fellowship at the Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici (1982–1984), where he was a Prix de Rome scholar.
During his years in France, Mr. Cogeval was curator of varied exhibitions, such as Debussy e il simbolismo (Rome), A New 19th Century (Brooklyn, New York, and Dallas), Vuillard (Lyon, Barcelona), Maurice Denis: A Retrospective (Lyon, Amsterdam, Cologne) and Renaissance Architecture (Paris).
In 2001, Guy Cogeval was awarded a medal of honor--Les insignes de chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République française--by the government of France. He studied art history at the Sorbonne, Paris, where he received his M.A. in 1981 and continued in the doctoral program until 1985. In 1985, he was awarded first place in the highly prestigious Concours des conservateurs des musées nationaux de France.
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