Kristen Gaylord
Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum

Kristen Gaylord is the Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she is organizing forthcoming exhibitions with Erin Shirreff and Widline Cadet. In her prior role as a curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, her recent projects included exhibitions Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision (2022) and Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood (2024), whose catalogue won a Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. Gaylord previously held multiple curatorial roles at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she contributed to over ten exhibitions and publications, including Stephen Shore (2017); Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017); and Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 (2015). She earned a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU.