Brady Roberts has been the Executive Director and CEO of the Vero Beach Museum of Art (VBMA) since 2016, during which time he has led the institution through a transformative period in its 40-year history. Under his leadership, museum attendance has increased, earning national recognition from ReMuseum in 2025 as one of the best-attended art museums of its size. To support the continued growth of its exhibitions, arts education program, and collection, Roberts is currently leading a $111 million project for a new, expanded home and transformed campus in Riverside Park, the most comprehensive upgrade to the Museum since it was founded as an arts center in 1986.
Prior to joining VBMA, Roberts served as the Chief Curator of the Milwaukee Art Museum for eighty ears. During his tenure, he led the master planning process for the first-ever, large-scale renovation and reinstallation of the museum’s 135,000 square-foot collection wing—spanning the 1957 War Memorial Center by architect Eero Saarinen and the 1975 addition by David Kahler. He also organized numerous acclaimed exhibitions at the museum, including Kandinsky—A Retrospective (2014), co-organized with the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Roberts previously served as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Phoenix Art Museum, Executive Director of the Dubuque Museum of Art, and Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Davenport Museum of Art (now the Figge Art Museum). He has organized major exhibitions of contemporary artists, including Tara Donovan, Isaac Julien, Robert Therrien, in addition to Modernist retrospectives of Frank Lloyd Wright, Grant Wood, and Wassily Kandinsky.
He holds a B.A. in Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (2014) and is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors.
