The Frick Collection has announced the appointment of Dr. Aimee Ng as the museum’s next Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. She will assume the post starting in November.

Ng currently serves as the Frick’s John Updike Curator and has been an instrumental member of the Curatorial Department since 2015. Throughout the institution’s recently completed renovation and enhancement project, she has played a pivotal role, co-curating the display of the permanent collection at the museum’s temporary home, Frick Madison, as well as the reinstallation of the galleries in its revitalized historic buildings at 1 East 70th Street.

Ng succeeds Xavier F. Salomon, who has been Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator since 2014, in addition to serving as Deputy Director since 2020. Salomon is departing the Frick in November to become Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.

In this role, Ng follows longtime chief curators Edgar Munhall, Colin B. Bailey, and Xavier F. Salomon. (The position was endowed by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation in 2007.) She brings significant curatorial experience, having organized and co-organized several exhibitions at the museum. This year, she co-organized, with guest curator Robert Fucci, Vermeer’s Love Letters (2025), a widely praised exhibition inaugurating the museum’s new Ronald S. Lauder Exhibition Galleries back at its Fifth Avenue home.

Ng earned her Ph.D. in art history at Columbia University. She held fellowships at The Morgan Library & Museum’s Drawing Institute, in 2014–2015, and at the Center for Curatorial Leadership, in 2022. In addition to her research and work on special exhibitions and publications at the Frick—including The Frick Collection: Essential Guide (2025) and volumes of the popular Diptych series—she featured in the museum’s Webby-nominated video series Cocktails with a Curator (2020–2021) and contributed to its related publication. She also hosted the video series What’s Her Story? (2020), honoring histories of women at the Frick, and Where in the World? (2021–2023), exploring links between the permanent collection and the world beyond Europe. Ng’s recent scholarship treats topics ranging from Bronzino’s portraiture to Turner’s port scenes and Vermeer’s pearls.