Carmen Hermo

Summer Series Speaker

Carmen Hermo is the Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She co-curated the exhibitions Subvert, Repair, Reclaim: Contemporary Artists Take Back the Nude (April 3 – August 2 2026), Counter History: Contemporary Art from the Collection and other collection presentations, as well as The Banner Project: Mark Thomas Gibson. 

Previously, she was Associate Curator for the Brooklyn Museum’s Center for Feminist Art, where she curated María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold (2023–25), Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive (2021); Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Are We Reading Closely? (2020); Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making (2017); and formed part of the curatorial collective for Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall (2019). She organized the Brooklyn presentations of Liza Lou: Trailer (2023); Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (2018) and Andy Warhol: Revelation (2021), and co-curated Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection (2018), among other projects. Carmen has also worked as the Assistant Curator for Collections at the Guggenheim Museum, and with the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Her independent projects include CURRENTS: An Overwhelming Response (A.I.R. Gallery, 2020), and New Voices: On Transformation (Print Center New York, 2023). Carmen received her B.A. in art history and English from the University of Richmond and her M.A. in art history from Hunter College. In 2019, she was honored by Project for Empty Space with a Badass Art Woman Award.