Thomas W. Sokolowski, Former Andy Warhol Museum Director, Remembered
- May 10, 2020 23:36
Thomas W. Sokolowski, longtime director of the Andy Warhol Museum, died May 6 following a seizure that caused major brain damage. He was 70.
Sokolowski was one of the founders of Visual AIDS, the New York nonprofit that raised awareness about HIV in the 1980s and began the impactful Day Without Art.
Sokolowski served as chief curator at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA (1982-84). He brought attention to early works by Andy Warhol as director of the Grey Art Gallery & Study Center at New York University (1984-96).
From 1996 to 2010, Sokolowski was director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh where he staged a number of memorable exhibitions including “Personal Jesus: The Religious Works of Keith Haring and Andy Warhol” and “Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand."
In 2017, he became director of the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
