Carmen Hermo was appointed the Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2024. She was Associate Curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum since 2016, and Assistant Curator for Collections at New York’s Guggenheim Museum prior to that.
At the Brroklyn Museum, she curated Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive (2021), Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Are We Reading Closely? (2020), and Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making (2017). Hermo was part of the curatorial collective for Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall (2019). She co-curated Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection (2020), Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection (2018–19), and Something to Say: Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, Deborah Kass, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Hank Willis Thomas (2018–19). She also organized the Brooklyn presentation of Andy Warhol: Revelation (2021); and co-organized those of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (2018) and Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty (2016–17).
