Naomi Milgrom AC is an Australian business leader, philanthropist and patron, internationally recognised for initiating and supporting cultural innovation and artistic excellence. With a focus on bold projects that engage communities and generate social, economic and environmental value, she is known for leading successful collaborations with government, business and not-for-profit partners.

Ms Milgrom has an acclaimed track record for bringing future-minded architecture and design to the community. She has collaborated with some of the world’s leading architects and urban thinkers through her MPavilion program, regarded as Australia’s principal architecture commission, and the Living Cities Forum, an annual gathering of leading global architects and design innovators. Through these initiatives, she has teamed with renowned architects such as Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten, Amanda Levete, Bijoy Jain, Ryue Nishizawa, Sean Godsell and Carme Pinós.

Numerous board positions and awards recognise Ms Milgrom's achievements as a leader and contributor to civil society.  She has been awarded three Honorary Doctorates, the Australian Institute of Architects President's Award, and Officer of the Order of Australia in 2010. Ms Milgrom accepted the Creative Partnerships Australia Philanthropy Leadership Award in 2016, was the Commissioner of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2017 and in 2018 received the Melbourne Achiever Award by the Committee for Melbourne. She was also a judge for the 2017 and 2019 World Architecture Awards, is a founding patron of PHOTO 2020 International Festival of photography and Chair of the Sydney Powerhouse Precinct Project.

Countryside, The Future: Guggenheim (2020)

Countryside, The Future is an exhibition addressing urgent environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues through the lens of architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). A unique exhibition for the Guggenheim Museum, Countryside, The Future will explore radical changes in the rural, remote, and wild territories collectively identified here as “countryside,” or the 98% of the Earth’s surface not occupied by cities, with a full rotunda installation premised on original research. The exhibition will examine the modern conception of leisure, large-scale planning by political forces, climate change, migration, human and nonhuman ecosystems, market-driven preservation, artificial and organic coexistence, and other forms of radical experimentation that are altering landscapes across the world.

The Head and the Load: William Kentridge, Tate Modern (2018)

Given Milgrom’s interest in William Kentridge she was invited by the Tate to support Kentridge’s hugely ambitious performance in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and corresponding exhibition in July 2018.

Entitled The Head and the Load, the exhibition is a major highlight of the Tate’s First World War centenary art commissions. The Naomi Milgrom Foundation is one of its cornerstone donors.

My Horizon, Tracey Moffat, Venice Biennale (2017)

The Australian Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2017 presented MY HORIZON, a solo exhibition by Tracey Moffatt at the Venice Biennale.

Australia’s commissioner of the 2017 Venice Biennale was Naomi Milgrom AC, working with Curator Natalie King. Evoking tantalising, open-ended narratives, MY HORIZON comprises two new series of large-scale photographs, Body Remembers and Passage, and two new video works, Vigil and The White Ghosts Sailed In, which use carefully constructed scenarios while drawing upon inspirations as diverse as television news reports, poetry, Surrealist painting, documentary photography, Hollywood cinema and the artist’s personal memories.