Andaleeb Badiee Banta is the National Gallery of Art’s Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings. She assumed the role in January 2025.

As Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Banta leads the department of prints and drawings, which is responsible for the care, study, display, and expansion of the National Gallery’s collection of some 120,000 works on paper. In addition to playing a vital role in implementing strategies to build on this collection, Banta is responsible for shepherding thought-provoking exhibitions and relevant collection displays that deepen appreciation of the key role of prints and drawings in artistic expression and art history.

Banta is a specialist in Renaissance and baroque art of Europe. She has curated exhibitions of prints and drawings covering periods from the Renaissance to the present day. Banta’s curatorial focus is on crafting narratives that cross chronological periods and highlight underrepresented artists.  

Prior to joining the National Gallery, Banta was senior curator and head of the department of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) from 2018 to 2024, where she curated the critically acclaimed exhibition Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400–1800. The exhibition’s catalog received the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Collaborative Project award, among other accolades.

Before her time at the BMA, Banta was curator of European and American art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College from 2013 to 2018 and assistant curator of drawings and prints at the National Gallery from 2010 to 2013. She has also held curatorial and research positions at the Morgan Library and Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Banta holds a PhD and MA in the history of art from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and a BA in the history of art from Vassar College.