Carmen Hermo is the MFA Boston’s Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art, and curated Subvert, Repair, Reclaim: Contemporary Artists Take Back the Nude, and co-curated collection presentations. Previously, she was Associate Curator for the Brooklyn Museum’s Center for Feminist Art, curating María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold (2023–25), Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive (2021); and Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall (2019), among other projects. Hermo worked as Assistant Curator for Collections at the Guggenheim, and at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art; she holds an art history MA from Hunter College.

Joiri Minaya (1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian multidisciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity. Minaya attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales in Santo Domingo (2009), Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons the New School for Design (2013). She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program and the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Red Bull House of Art, the Lower East Side Printshop, ISCP, Art Omi, Vermont Studio Center, New Wave, Silver Art Projects and Fountainhead. 

Katherine Sherwood is a San Francisco Bay Area painter whose work explores the intersections of disability, feminism, and art history. In her Aggressive Women and Venus paintings, she “crips” images of women, reclaiming the nude as a site of visibility and embodiment for disabled figures. Her work was recently featured in For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability at MCASD La Jolla (2024–25). A catalog of her work, In the Garden of the Yelling Clinic, was published in 2022. Sherwood is Professor Emerita of Painting at UC Berkeley, where she developed the course Art, Medicine, and Disability. She serves on the board of Creative Growth, Oakland.