Prior to joining Carnegie Museum of Art, Ms. Grynsztejn was associate curator (1992-96) and acting department head (1996) in the Department of Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture at The Art Institute of Chicago, where her exhibitions included: Affinities: Chuck Close and Tom Friedman (1996), and About Place: Recent Art of the Americas (1995).

As associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1986-1992), she specialized in commissioning new projects with artists. She also co-organized Dos Ciudades/Two Cities, a series of exhibitions, publications, and projects located in San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, tied to the theme of the US/Mexico border.

Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and London, Ms. Grynsztejn studied at the Université de Sorbonne in Paris, receiving her B.A. degrees in History of Art and French from Newcomb College of Tulane University, New Orleans, and her M.A. in History of Art from Columbia University, New York. She was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art.

Ms. Grynsztejn has written and lectured extensively on contemporary art, served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Galeria de Arte Nacional in Caracas among other agencies, as well as serving as juror for the American Academy in Rome, the Munich Kunstpreis in Germany, and the Tiffany Foundation Biennial Awards. She has also serve on advisory committees for The Brooklyn Academy of Music and The American Center in Paris.