Christina Mossaides Strassfield

Christina Mossaides Strassfield is the Museum Director/Chief Curator of
Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York. She oversees the artistic
leadership and overall management of the Museum with an exemplary
schedule. The mission statement of the museum is to showcase artists who have an affiliation with Eastern Long Island. Close proximity to NYC
has made the Hamptons the summer home for most of the New York Art
world. This has allowed Ms. Strassfield to forge close relationships with
the artists, dealers and collectors who shape it. She has curated exhibitions of numerous internationally recognized artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, David Salle, Ross Bleckner, April Gornik, John Chamberlain, Larry Rivers, Hans Namuth, Cindy Sherman, Dan Flavin, Taryn Simon, Barbara Kruger and Richard Prince. Each of these artists has formed a positive bond with the institution in part because of her. Ms. Strassfield is also very committed to championing the works of lesser known artists.

She curates a biannual group invitational show which has received acclaim from art critics as well as the general public. At Guild Hall she is in charge of curating the permanent collection of over 2000 objects. Ms. Strassfield launched the Guild Hall Collector’s Circle and has cultivated many gifts for the collection, overseeing acquisitions and loans, guiding the Museum Committee, and organizing the traveling exhibitions. She’s co-chaired a Symposium at Hofstra University on the artist Perle Fine. She’s also a professor at Dowling College in museum studies.