Roberto C. Ferrari

Roberto C. Ferrari is the Curator of Art Properties at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught courses at Columbia, Drew University, City College, and other schools. He is the guest curator, with Sophie Lynford, of the first US exhibition on the queer Jewish artist Simeon Solomon (1840–1905), scheduled to open at Delaware Art Museum in 2027.

When I was a child, Italy was the sound of my father speaking on the telephone, his tongue picking off rapid-fire melodies that were words and sentences, but nothing I could understand, transfixed as I was, spying on him with the door ajar. Papà was an American but born and raised in Milan.

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