Lydia Peabody, Curator-at-Large

Lydia Peabody advises on special projects by contributing expertise in modern and contemporary art. She diversifies the museum’s collection through the acquisition of artwork by emerging artists, women artists and artists of color.

Peabody curated or co-curated Ethiopia at the Crossroads; Gio Swaby: Fresh Up; Bethany Collins: America, A Hymnal; Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love; The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming; Vanessa Platacis: Taking Place; Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle; and Hans Hofman: The Nature of Abstraction, among other exhibitions.

Peabody holds dual M.A. degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in modern and contemporary art history, theory and criticism and art administration and policy. She received her B.A. in arts administration from Simmons University. Peabody is an associate professor of art history at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Mass. In 2021, she was appointed to the board of The Wolf Kahn Foundation, where she chairs the legacy committee. Her writing has been published in Demeter Press, Boston Art Review, Hyperallergic and Artforum.

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