Hunter O’Hanian joined College Art Association in July 2016 as the organization’s Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to joining CAA, Hunter was the director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Previously, he served as Vice President of Institutional Advancement and executive director of the Foundation for Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the president of Colorado’s Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and executive director of the largest residency program for emerging artists and writers in the US, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Hunter has an undergraduate degree from Boston College and a law degree from Suffolk University School of Law. With a long history of community and non-profit volunteerism, Hunter was the board chair of the Alliance of Artists Communities, the organization of artist’s residencies throughout the US.
His honors include an honorary doctorate of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston, a fully endowed fellowship named in his name at the Fine Arts Work Center, a fund established in his name to acquire art work by diverse artists at the Leslie-Lohman Museum and a 2016 Impact Award from New York’s Gay City News.