Experience

Elmhurst Art Museum: Art, Education & Architecture

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Aug 2017 - Present

  “Add Elmhurst to the long list of institutions that have really great directors and a new wind behind them” says Tony Karman, president and director of Expo Chicago. The museum, Karman says, “is an important regional cultural institution,” and McKinnon “has the right background, the right connections and the vision” for it. - Crain’s, August 2018 "Here’s a coup: The traveling retrospective toasting the 100th birthday of the German art and design movement makes its lone U.S. visit at the Elmhurst Art Museum after stops in Buenos Aires and Mexico City" -Michigan Avenue, February 2019 "It’s hard to pick among the three recently opened exhibits at the elegant small museum in the near western suburbs..." (Instead of picking one of our shows, the writer listed all three in his fall highlights!) - Chicago Tribune, September 2020 “Thanks to the Elmhurst Art Museum for helping put together an exhibit that underscores not just the need for fair housing policies, but the need to push for a more fair and equitable nation, and an economy that works for all." -U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, June 2021 “I kept getting pulled outside of Chicago to go to the Elmhurst Museum because they kept having these great shows,” - Christopher Jobson, founder of Colossal, Chicago Tribune, June 2021 "From exhibiting work by Midwest contemporary artists, to the McCormick House by Mies van der Rohe, to extensive educational programming, the Elmhurst Art Museum mission is stronger than ever. And 2022 marks their twenty-fifth anniversary." -Newcity's Design 50: The Fifty People That Shape Chicago, March 2022



Art Institute of Chicago

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Director, Society for Contemporary Art

  • Oct 2010 - Aug 2017



Various Non Profit organizations

• Civic and Social Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Freelance Curator

  • Oct 2010 - Jun 2017

  Someone Else’s Dream: Arturo Herrera, Richard Hull, José Lerma, Martin McMurray, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Christina Ramberg, Peter Saul, and T.L. Solien, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, 01/29 – 05/6/12, Curator http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/someone-elses-dream Another Kind of Vapor: Iain Baxter&, Robert Heinecken, David Lieske, Paul McCarthy, Otto Piene, William Pope.L, Ed Ruscha, Dieter Roth, and Jennifer West, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, 06/18 – 07/23/11, Co-curator http://white-flag-projects.org/wfp10/exhibition_details.cfm?eID=53 BRUCE CONNER: APPARITIONS, Huret and Spector Gallery, Emerson College, Boston, 10/8 – 11/19/10, Curator http://www.emerson.edu/about-emerson/campuses-facilities/boston/huret-spector-gallery/past-exhibitions/bruce-conner-exhibit



St. Louis Art Center

• Greater St. Louis Area

• Consultant

  • Sep 2014 - May 2017



various publications

• Freelance Writer

  • Feb 2006 - Apr 2017



Milwaukee Art Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

  • Jan 2007 - Oct 2010

  Exhibition highlights: BRUCE CONNER, Inova/Kenilworth at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Co-curator http://peckschoolnews.uwm.edu/news/2010/08/inova-201011-season-opens-with-two-concurrent-exhibitions-on-august-20th.html Fifty Works for Fifty States: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection; Curator http://mam.org/exhibitions/details/vogel.php Andy Warhol: The Last Decade; Coordinating Curator http://www.mam.org/warhol/ Andy Warhol: Pop Star; Curator Andy Warhol: Screen Tests; Curator Act/React: Interactive Installation Art; Coordinating Curator http://www.mam.org/act/index.htm Gilbert & George; Curatorial Assistant http://www.mam.org/gandg/ On Site: Santiago Cucullu (MF Ziggurat); Curator http://www.mam.org/cucullu/ Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound, and the Optical in Art Since 1945; Co-curator http://www.mam.org/sensory/ Martín Ramírez; Curatorial Assistant http://www.mam.org/ramirez/ Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s; Curatorial Assistant http://mam.org/exhibitions/details/bacon.php



Wendy Cooper Gallery

• Director

  • Oct 2002 - Nov 2006

  Exhibitions: http://www.wendycoopergallery.com/pastexhibitions.htm Exhibitions: http://www.wendycoopergallery.com/pastexhibitions.htm