亚历山德拉•孟璐博士是纽约古根海姆美术馆亚洲艺术部三星资深策展人，是亚洲现当代艺术以及传统艺术研究的权威及领军人物。自2006年加入古根海姆以来，她一直担任纽约及全球其他分馆的亚洲艺术项目负责人。她主持两年一度，为酝酿展览项目举办的古根海姆亚洲艺术会议，并领导推动中国当代艺术发展的何鸿毅家族基金。
孟璐博士组织了许多广受赞誉并获奖的展览，推进了国际学术的发展以及国际范围内对亚洲现当代艺术的认知。她的展览与学术出版物荣获了诸多顶尖奖项与赞誉，包括：美国美术馆协会（AAAM），国际艺术批评家协会（IACA），美国美术馆策展人协会艺术协会学院（AAMC），北美艺术图书馆协会（ARLIS/NA）与中国艺术权力榜。
孟璐在日本成长，曾经担任纽约日本协会副主席及其美术馆馆长。她在纽约大学艺术学院取得硕士学位，在该校获得历史学博士学位。她是上海外滩美术馆以及北京尤伦斯当代艺术中心学术委员会成员，纽约大学艺术学院理事，美国-日本基金会（US-Japan Foundation）理事，以及纽约外交关系协会（the Council on Foreign Relations）成员。
Alexandra Munroe, PhD, Samsung Senior Curator, Asian Art, and Senior Advisor, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is a pioneering authority on modern and contemporary Asian art and transnational art studies. She has led the Guggenheim’s Asian art program since its founding in 2006 while also working on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum and the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. She convenes the museum’s biannual Asian Art Council, a curatorial think tank, and directs The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation initiative in contemporary Chinese art.
Munroe has organized many award-winning and critically acclaimed exhibitions that have promoted international scholarship and recognition on modern and contemporary Asian art. She is recognized for launching the international critical appraisal of artists Cai Guo Qiang, Daido Moriyama, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Ufan, Mu Xin, and Yoko Ono, among others, and for bringing such historic avant-garde movements as Gutai, Mono-ha, Korean Tanseakwa and most recently, Chinese conceptual art, to international attention.
Raised in Japan, Munroe was former Vice President of Japan Society, New York, and former director of its museum. She holds an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a Ph.D. in History from New York University. She serves on the advisory boards of Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai and is a trustee of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
