Suzanne Ramljak

Suzanne Ramljak is Vice President of Collections & Curatorial Affairs at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, where she has worked since 2022. Ramljak was formerly Curator at the American Federation of Arts, New York, overseeing the development of traveling museum exhibitions and scholarly publications. She previously served as Editor of Sculpture magazine, published by the International Sculpture Center, and was Editor of Metalsmith and of Glass Quarterly magazines.

Ramljak has worked in the curatorial departments of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Her many curated exhibitions include Romancing the Brain; Case Studies: Art in a Valise; Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art; and Mark Dion & Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld. Among the exhibitions she has curated since coming to Meijer Gardens are Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture; David Smith: The Nature of Sculpture; Busted: Contemporary Sculpture Busts; and Jaume Plensa: A New Humanism.

A contributor to numerous publications, Ramljak’s writing on art has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and Utne Reader among other periodicals and magazines. In addition to exhibition catalogues, her books include On Body & Soul: Contemporary Amulets to Armor and Loaded: Guns in Contemporary Art.

Ramljak holds a BA and MA degree in Art History from the University of Michigan and completed her doctoral studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.