Senior Curator
Dr. Alissa Schapiro
Dr. Alissa Schapiro is Senior Curator at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. In her previous role as Curator and Collections Specialist at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Schapiro oversaw the museum’s collection and curated exhibitions including TORN Project by Susan Lerner, This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, and RECLAIMED: A Family Painting. Schapiro also co-curated Life Magazine and the Power of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and she has contributed to exhibitions and catalogues for the Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Britain, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Schapiro regularly lectures and publishes on the relationship between twentieth-century art and antisemitism, and her scholarly research has been supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Holocaust Educational Foundation, and the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Harvard University, an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University.
Dr. Schapiro joined the Magnes team in 2026.
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