Robert Chaney is the Marc J. Leder Director of Curatorial Affairs at ICA. He has worked in the contemporary art museum field for more than 30 years, accruing a varied set of experiences in such diverse areas as: project management, exhibition design, museum education, art installation, budgeting, and registrar. During his tenure at ICA, Chaney has managed successful traveling exhibitions and museum partnerships including Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images, Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses, Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison, Barbara Kasten: Stages, Jason Rhoades, Four Roads; and Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show. As Director of Curatorial Affairs, Robert works closely with ICA’s Chief Curator producing ICA exhibitions and acts as a liaison between Curatorial Affairs and other ICA departments.

Chaney was a part of the initiative Art for Philadelphia supporting the Philadelphia Bail Fund. He also was the CFO of Vox Populi Gallery and a board member of the Parent Infant center in West Philadelphia. He is a father of two and an artist working in collage and drawing mediums. Chaney received a BFA in Photography and an MA in Art Education from The Ohio State University. He served as ICA’s Interim Director in 2011–12.