Scott Rothkopf is an American art curator and the current chief curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

A native of Dallas, Texas, Rothkopf graduated from the Greenhill School. He obtained both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. From 2004 until 2009 he was a senior editor at ArtForum magazine. In 2009 he joined the staff of the Whitney Museum and in 2015 was promoted to chief curator.

While at Whitney (both at its previous location and its new facility designed by Renzo Piano in New York City's Meatpacking District) he has curated numerous exhibitions, including; "Mary Heilmann: Sunset" (2015), "Jeff Koons: A Retrospective" (2014 - the largest single artist exhibition in the Whitney's history and the closing show in the Museum's previous Marcel Breuer designed Madison Avenue home space), "Sinister Pop" (2012–13, with Donna De Salvo), "Wade Guyton OS" (2012–13), Glenn Ligon: AMERICA (2011), "Singular Visions" (2010, with Dana M…Read more on Wikipedia