PRESIDENTS OF THE IAA SINCE 1952 Name Country Period Election (Assembly and Congress) Gino Severini Italy 1952 A provisional council formed under the chairmanship of Gino Severini and secretariat in UNESCO André Lhote France 1954-1957 First GA and Congress in Venice, Italy Charles Leplae Belgium 1957-1960 Second GA and Congress in Dubrovnik, Croatia Jean-Francis Laglenne France 1960 -1963 Third GA and Congress in (he died before end his term) Vienna, Austria Harold Weston (ad interim) USA Titus Leeser Netherlands 1963-1966 Fourth GA and Congress in New York, USA Yoshinobu Masuda Japan 1966-1969 Fifth GA and Congress in Tokyo, Japan Jaromir Wiso Czechoslovakia 1969-1972 Sixth GA and Congress in Amsterdam, Holland William A. Smith USA 1973-1976 Seventh GA and Congress in Varna, Bulgaria Detchko Ouzounov Bulgaria 1976-1979 Eight GA and Congress in Baghdad, Iraq Adigio Benítez Cuba 1979-1982 Ninth GA and Congress in Stuttgart, Germany Hilde Maehlum Norway 1982-1986 Tenth GA and Congress in Helsinki, Finland Ismael Al-Sheikly Iraq 1986-1989 Eleventh GA and Congress (Baron-Renouard was the in Baghdad, Iraq First Vice President and acted as President the last year) Eduardo Arenillas Spain 1989-1992 Twelfth GA and Congress in León/Madrid, Spain Bernard Hoffert Australia 1992-1995 Thirteenth GA and Congress in Seoul, South Korea Una Walker Ireland 1995- Fourteenth GA and (She left office midterm and Congress in Tlaxcala, Abderrahman Medjaouli Mexico from Tunisia took office) Lily Bacoyannis Greece 2002-2005 Fifteenth GA and Congress, in Athens, Greece Liu Dawei China 2005-2011 Sixteenth GA and Congress in Hefei /Beijing, China Rosa María Burillo Velasco Mexico 2011-2015 Seventeenth GA and Congress in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Bedri Baykam Turkey 2015- Eighteenth GA and Congress in Pilsen, Czech Republic .