John Ravenal has been the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts since 1998. He has organized exhibitions including Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit; Xu Bing: Tobacco Project; Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit; and Jasper Johns/Edvard Munch (forthcoming in 2016), which is the first exhibition to explore the connection between those two artists. From 2009 to 2011 he served as the fourth president of the Association of Art Museum Curators.  

Photo courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts