Lauren Palmor is the assistant curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She received a master of arts with merit in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2009) and a PhD in art history from the University of Washington (2016), where her dissertation research addressed questions of ageism in the study of 19th-century genre painting. An advocate for interpretive experimentation, she is dedicated to designing new ways of sharing and experiencing American art with museum audiences.
