Liz Munsell is a contemporary art curator with two decades of experience at major museums, university galleries, and nonprofits. Currently based in New York, she has held curatorial leadership roles at the Jewish Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and Harvard University.

Liz has organized dozens of exhibitions, performances, and commissioned projects with artists including Joan Jonas, Jeffrey Gibson, Bouchra Khalili, and Pedro Reyes. Her most recent exhibitions include Nicki Green: A Fruitful Vine at the Al Held Foundation (2025); the group exhibition of emerging artists Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration, at the Jewish Museum (2024); Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation, at the MFA (2020-21) and Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu, at the Brooklyn Museum and the MFA (2017-18). Her writings have been published in English, Spanish, and Japanese in ten printed volumes, and in online and print publications such as BOMB Magazine; Artforum.com, ARTnews.com, and MoMA’s "Post: Notes on Art in a Global Context." 

Whether through advocacy, research, writing, exhibitions, or programming, her work is fundamentally concerned with the political and social conditions of institutions and their relationships to artistic practice. In 2021, she co-founded Museums Moving Forward (MMF)—a research and advocacy organization dedicated to creating a more equitable art museum sector by 2030. She currently serves on MMF’s Editorial Council and the advisory boards of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and the Mack Art Foundation.

Liz is fluent in Spanish and spent 4 years in Chile as a Fulbright Scholar and graduate student researching public art under dictatorship in the 1980s. She holds a BA from Tufts University and a Masters in Cultural Studies from the Universidad de Chile, where she graduated with maximum distinction.

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