Stephanie Barron is senior curator and head of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In more than forty years at LACMA, Barron has been responsible for seminal exhibitions including The Avant-Garde in Russia: 1910-1930, German Expressionist Sculpture, David Hockney: A Retrospective, Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, Exiles and Émigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, and exhibitions devoted to the work of Alexander Calder, Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Sharon Lockhart, and René Magritte. She co-organized LACMA's millennium project, Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Barron has received the Order of Merit First Class and the Commander's Cross from the German government, the John J. McCloy Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship for museum professionals. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and serves on the John Baldessari and Mike Kelley artist foundations.