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Claire Howard is the Hansjörg Wyss Curator of Modern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was previously Associate Curator, Collections and Exhibitions, at The University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art, where her exhibitions included Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi: Outside In (2025), Long Live Surrealism! 1924–Today (2024), Suzanne Bocanegra: Valley(2021), Joiri Minaya: Labadee (2019), Ideas in Sensuous Form: The International Symbolist Movement (2018), and Contemporary Projects with Lily Cox-Richard (2019) and Las Hermanas Iglesias (2022).
She was Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Blanton from 2017–2022, a Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow at the Menil Collection, Houston, from 2016–2017, and a Research Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 2006–2010.
Claire earned an MA and PhD in art history from The University of Texas at Austin and a BA from Wellesley College. She has published widely on postwar Surrealism and its cultural contexts and contributed to publications by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Centre Pompidou. She is a founding board member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism.
