Rachel Zebro
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 Curator of Modern Art and Manager of Collections and Archives at Phoenix Art Museum, where she develops original exhibitions, leads acquisitions for the Museum's Modern, Postwar, and European art collections, and oversees the Archives department.
Featured exhibitions include Larry Bell: Improvisations (2024), which opened at Phoenix Art Museum before traveling to the San Antonio Museum of Art (August 29, 2025-January 4, 2026) and SITE Santa FE (October 16, 2026-January 11, 2027); Breaking Up (2022); Sweet Land of Funk (2021); Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen (2020); and In the Company of Women (2018). Recent projects include serving as juror for the 2025 Amarillo Museum of Art Biennial 600 and curating the newly reinstalled Art of the Americas and Europe galleries, spanning three dedicated spaces that explore the history of European art.
Before joining 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), as well as artist monographs on Kristin Bauer (2023) and Arizona printmaker John Armstrong (2025).
Zebro received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Arizona and holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh.
