Starr Figura

Starr Figura is Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints and a specialist in modern and contemporary prints. Among the many exhibitions she has organized over the years are Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde (2020), Gauguin: Metamorphoses (2014), German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse (2011), and Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings (2007). Part of the team that reinstalled the Museum’s expanded, reimagined, and cross-media collection galleries in 2019, she is closely involved in the ongoing program of their frequent reinstallation. Prior to joining the Museum in 1993, Starr worked in the Print Room at the New York Public Library and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She holds an MA in art history from Columbia University, and a BA in art history from Bryn Mawr College.