Jeremy Mikolajczak

Jeremy Mikolajczak is the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. Prior to joining the Museum in April 2022, he served as the Jon and Linda Ender Director and CEO of the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block (TMA). During his tenure at TMA, Mikolajczak led the organization through a period of exceptional growth. He oversaw a capital campaign that established and renovated the Alice Chaiten Baker Center for Art Education and the Kasser Family Wing of Latin American Art, while further powering other such strategic expansions to the TMA campus that further enabled the institution to better engage its multicultural community.

Prior to his time with TMA, Mikolajczak served as the executive director and chief curator at the Miami-Dade College’s Museum and Galleries of Art + Design, where he oversaw a network of six campus galleries and an international sculpture garden; founded the Museum of Art + Design; established the Cuban Exile Experience located in downtown Miami’s Freedom Tower; and helped to grow the institution’s annual impact to more than 100,000 visitors. Mikolajczak has also served as a scholar and educator at the University of Florida (Gainesville) and the University of Central Missouri.

Mikolajczak studied studio art and art history, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from West Virginia University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he specialized in painting and printmaking. He lives in the Valley of the Sun with his wife, Ana Tello, and their two children. Mikolajczak grew up in Michigan in one of the tri-cities north of Detroit, where he first discovered his love of art and museums at the Detroit Institute of Art. He has now called Arizona home for more than six years.