Dennis Kois

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Dennis Kois is a well-known exhibition and graphic designer in the museum field. Kois co-designed the Galleries of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1999), as well as co-designed numerous museum exhibitions, including the Met's Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years. He was a protege of Jeff Daly, the Chief Designer of the Metropolitan from 1979-2006. Additionally, Kois was the internal art director of the Met's website redesign, metmuseum.org, when it launched in 2000. The redesign won both "Best Website" from the American Association of Museums as well as "Best E-Commerce Site" from Advertising Age.

In 2001 Kois became the Chief Designer of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Between 2001-2006 he designed a number of well-regarded exhibitions, including the costume exhibition "Style and Status," which through reference by Andre Leon Talley at Vogue led to a resurgence of Ottoman motifs in contemporary fashion collections, including that of Chanel, during 2005-2006.

Kois received a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MA from New York University. He taught in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies at George Washington University from 2001-2006.

In 2006 Kois became the Executive Director of the Grace Museum, in Abilene Texas. He was appointed to the Texas Commission on the Arts visual arts panel for a two-year term in 2007.