"With its experimental exhibitions and dynamic public programmes, the Hammer has set the pace for museums to engage with the critical issues of our time, whether politics, climate change or justice and equity for all," Ryan said in a statement. "Annie Philbin has had an extraordinary impact in making the Hammer an internationally influential institution; I am thrilled and honoured to lead this museum and be a part of the vibrant creative communities of Los Angeles."
"Her cross-disciplinary curiosity and intellectual rigour will undoubtedly enrich the creative and intellectual fabric of our school and campus, and we're confident that her leadership will take the Hammer Museum to new heights," Lionel Popkin, the interim dean of UCLA's school of the arts and architecture, said in a statement.
Ryan arrives at the Hammer after a period of extensive transformation at the museum. In the spring of 2023, it completed a 24-year expansion and renovation, as well as a $180m capital campaign. "There isn't a single surface in the museum, not one square inch, that hasn't been touched," Philbin told The Art Newspaper at the time.
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