Dana Ostrander is Assistant Curator of Modern Art at the Kemper Art Museum and the organizing curator of “Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–50.” She is an art historian specializing in the twentieth century, with research interests in Latin American art and global modernisms. Her writing on Brazilian photography recently appeared in the edited volume, Modernism, Art, Therapy (2024), and she has an essay on Argentine modernism forthcoming in the journal Latin American Jewish Studies. Prior to her arrival at the Kemper Art Museum in 2023, Ostrander held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. While at MoMA, she assisted with the exhibitions Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964 and Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum (as well as accompanying catalogues). Ostrander completed her PhD in art history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2021.