Terrie Sultan (born 28 October 1952) is an American independent curator and cultural consultant and Founding Principal of the boutique consulting firm Art Museum Strategies @ Hudson Ferris based in New York City. AMS @ Hudson Ferris combines the experience and expertise of an experienced former art museum director with a team of highly regarded, professional fundraising consultants to offer a broad range of services specifically tailored to art museums and cultural institutions, including strategic planning, crisis management, operational structures and organizational assessment, board governance, and curatorial expertise to peers in the field, as well as operational fundraising, feasibility studies, and development and oversight of capital and comprehensive campaigns in association with Hudson Ferris.
In addition to her work with AMS @ Hudson Ferris Sultan engages in independent curatorial and writing projects, including Beyond the Lens: Photorealist Perspectives on Looking, Seeing, and Painting for the Asheville Art Museum, on view September 8, 2023 to February 24, 2024 Journeys to Places Known and Unknown: Moving Images by Janet Biggs and peter campus for the Sarasota Art Museum, on view October 2022 through January 2023. She acted as Consulting Producer for the groundbreaking, multi-disciplinary performance project Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness working in collaboration with Director and Producer Stephen Jimenez, artist James Drake, composer Gabrielle Ortiz, author Benjamin Saenz, artist Shaun Leonardo, multidisciplinary musician Alejandro Escuer, and curator Leila Hamidi. She is currently working as co-author for a memoire by the collector and gallerist Louis K. Meisel, the author, art dealer and proponent of the Photorealist art movement.
Sultan was appointed Director of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York in April 2008. During her tenure as Director of the Parrish she oversaw the $33 million capital campaign and the design and construction of a new facility located in Water Mill, NY, designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The Parrish broke ground on the project in July 2010 and opened the building to the public in November 2012. Sultan left her position in 2021 and launched AMS @ Hudson Ferris that same year.