Rachel Sadvary Zebro is a curator and art historian whose research focuses on transatlantic modernism and contemporary abstraction, with particular emphasis on the contributions of women artists within these histories. She currently serves as Associate Curator of Collections at Phoenix Art Museum, where she curates original exhibitions and oversees projects and acquisition strategies for the museum’s modern, contemporary, and European art collections. Featured exhibitions include Dutch Art Expanded (2025), Larry Bell: Improvisations (2024), Breaking Up (2022), Sweet Land of Funk (2021), Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen (2020), and In the Company of Women (2018). Recent projects include jurying the 2025 Amarillo Museum of Art Biennial 600 and curating the newly renovated Art of the Americas and Europe galleries spanning three dedicated spaces to the history of European art.

Before assuming her current role at Phoenix Art Museum, Zebro served as Head of Research at Di Donna Galleries in New York, where she co-curated Man Ray’s Paris Portraits (2023) and contributed to the exhibition catalogue Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder. Her scholarly writing appears in major exhibition publications, including Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (2019) and Kristin Bauer’s monograph This Is Like That (2023), as well as a forthcoming essay for a monograph on the Arizona printmaker John Armstrong.

Zebro received her MA in art history from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and holds a master’s degree in library and information sciences from the University of Pittsburgh.