Career
She is the director of the Parrish Art Museum in Long Island, New York (started 1 April 2008. She replaced 26-year veteran Trudy Kramer). Her previous position was at the University of Houston in Texas.
Sultan was raised in North Carolina.
Her brother is the artist and printmaker Donald Sultan, based in Sag Harbor, New New York She served in the Peace Corps, spending time in Apia, Samoa (1977).
She has served in senior positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, District of Columbia, and the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (8 years). She has organized more than 40 exhibitions in her career, including Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space, and Jessica Stockholder: Kissing the Wall, and Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration.