Pamela J. Joyner

Pamela J. Joyner joined the Getty’s board in February 2017. She has nearly 30 years of experience in the investment industry and is the Founder of Avid Partners, LLC, where her expertise has been the alternative investment arena. She is a director of First Republic Bank and chair of its investment committee.

She is Chair of the Tate Americas Foundation, and a member of the Tate International Council and the Tate North America Acquisitions Committee. She is a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago, a trustee and member of the Director's Circle of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and a member of the Modern and Contemporary Art Visiting Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Joyner serves on the board of the Art & Practice Foundation.

The Pamela J. Joyner Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary art by African American and African Diasporic artists in the world. The collection is a catalyst for pioneering artistic, scholarly and public initiatives including a major nationwide touring exhibition commencing in fall 2017, as well as Four Generations, a critical anthology of new research and writing which explores the critical contributions that artists of African descent have made to visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries. Joyner and Giuffrida also inaugurated an artist residency program in 2014 in Sonoma, California.