Carmen Hermo

Carmen Hermo is the Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. There, she curated Subvert, Repair, Reclaim: Contemporary Artists Take Back the Nude (2026), a thematic group show of recent work by 12 multimedia artists liberating the trope of the nude in Western art history. Carmen also co-curated ongoing collection display Counter History: Contemporary Art from the Collection, as well as Rituals for Remembering: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta, and she organized The Banner Project: Mark Thomas Gibson. 

Previously, Carmen 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); and Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making (2017); and she formed part of the curatorial collective for Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall (2019). She also 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 BA in art history and English from the University of Richmond and her MA in art history from Hunter College.