Newly Established UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art Names Kathryn Kanjo as First Director

This fall, the University of California, Irvine, and Orange County Museum of Art completed their amicable merger, creating a new entity: the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art. Today, the new institution named its first director, Kathryn Kanjo, who currently leads the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD). She will assume her new role in February 2026, and will also oversee the UC Irvine Jack & Shanaz Langson Institute of California Art.Kanjo ascended from MCASD’s chi