Karen Sherry
Associate Curator of American Art
A specialist in pre-1945 American art, Karen Sherry joined the Brooklyn Museum’s curatorial staff in 2005 as Assistant Curator and was promoted to Associate Curator in 2011. She has organized exhibitions on a variety of topics, including plein-air sketching, Japonisme in American graphic arts, and Francis Guy’s early Brooklyn scenes. Prior to her curatorial position, Dr. Sherry was the project coordinator for the Museum’s Luce Visible Storage ▪Study Center. She also worked as a research assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brandywine River Museum; as co-curator of an exhibition on John Sloan’s graphic works at the Delaware Art Museum; and as an adjunct professor at various schools. She received a B.A. from Boston University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. Among the honors she has received are fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Winterthur Museum.
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
