Heard Museum Names Director, CEO
David M. Roche will assume the role as director and chief executive officer of the Heard Museum in Phoenix on Jan. 1, 2016. Roche has served as director of Sotheby’s American Indian Art Department for the past 17 years. During his tenure at Sotheby’s, the most important collections of American Indian art were entrusted to his care and resulted in landmark sales.
Roche has consulted and lectured on American Indian art at museums and universities around the world including the British Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Andy Warhol Museum. He has published on the subjects of antique and contemporary American Indian art, most recently in exhibition catalogs for the Museum of Art and Design’s Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation.
Prior to joining Sotheby’s, Roche served as director of Gallery 10 in Scottsdale and Santa Fe and as vice president of Kaiser-Engler Group in New York, a firm specializing in financial and strategic planning for nonprofit arts organizations.
He has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in arts administration from New York University.
