Sylvain Amic

Sylvain Amic
Born(1967-04-26)26 April 1967
Dakar, Senegal
Died31 August 2025(2025-08-31) (aged 58)
Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
OccupationArt historian

Sylvain Amic (26 April 1967 – 31 August 2025) was a Senegalese-born French art historian. A member of the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts of Rouen, he served as president of the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de l'Orangerie from 2024 to 2025.[1]

Amic was born in Dakar. He worked as a teacher before training as a curator at the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, graduating in 1997. He specialized in modern and contemporary art.[2]

Between 2016 and 2022 Amic directed the Réunion des Musées Métropolitains Rouen Normandie (RMM), an umbrella institution of museums of the Métropole Rouen Normandie. In 2018 he was tasked, together with the curator Olivia Voisin, by then-Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen with developing a project for the circulation of artworks between the French regions.[2]

Amic had already been a candidate as president of the Musée d'Orsay in 2017, at which time the position went to Laurence des Cars.[2]

Amic died from a heart attack on 31 August 2025, at his vacation home in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Gard, at the age of 58.[3][4][5][2]

References

  1. ^ Barnaud, Timothée (31 August 2025). "Mort « brutale » de Sylvain Amic, président des musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie". The Huffington Post (in French). Retrieved 31 August 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d Lorillec, Marie; Thobie-Gorce, Léna (1 September 2025). "Décès soudain de Sylvain Amic, l'ancien directeur des musées de Rouen, qui dirigeait le musée d'Orsay". France 3 (in French). Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  3. ^ "Sylvain Amic, président des Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie, est mort à l'âge de 58 ans". Le Monde (in French). 31 August 2025. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
  4. ^ "Le président du musée d'Orsay Sylvain Amic disparaît brutalement à l'âge de 58 ans". Le Parisien (in French). 31 August 2025. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
  5. ^ Nayeri, Farah (1 September 2025). "Sylvain Amic, Musée d'Orsay President Who Aimed to Democratize Art, Dies at 58". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
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