Contemporary Art Curator

​​Carmen Hermo is the incoming Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, starting in fall 2024.

Recently, she was Associate Curator for the Brooklyn Museum’s Center for Feminist Art. Her notable exhibitions include María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold (2024; traveling survey), 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); as well as organizing the Brooklyn presentations of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (2018) and Andy Warhol: Revelation (2021), and forming part of the curatorial collective for Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall (2019). Among other exhibitions, Carmen co-curated collection highlights focused on feminist ideas, including Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection (2018). She founded the Brooklyn Museum’s Young Leadership Council, and led the Contemporary Art Committee and Council for Feminist Art patron groups.

Carmen previously worked as Assistant Curator for Collections at the Guggenheim Museum, where she co-curated the exhibitions Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim (2015, full rotunda) and Now’s the Time: Recent Acquisitions (2018), acquired artwork for the permanent collection, and was responsible for acquisition intake, outgoing loans, and the Collection Online initiative. Carmen also worked with the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Her independent curatorial projects include CURRENTS: An Overwhelming Response (A.I.R. Gallery, 2020), New Voices: On Transformation (Print Center New York, 2023), and have been featured by the Hirshhorn Museum and Visual A.I.D.S. Carmen has written essays for publications on María Magdalena Campos-Pons (2023; winner of the Pub West Book Design Silver Prize for Photography/Art/Design), Dyani White Hawk (2021), LJ Roberts (2021), the Whitney Biennial (2019), We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (2017), Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer (forthcoming), and her writing has appeared in Women’s Art Journal, ArtNews, BOMB, Artnet, among other platforms.    

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, where she received the Estrellita Brodsky Scholarship. She is the child of immigrants from Spain, and grew up in New Jersey. In 2019, she was honored by Project for Empty Space with a Badass Art Woman Award.