Michelle Millar Fisher

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA
Curator

Michelle Millar Fisher is curator of contemporary decorative arts at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, United States. Previously, she worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. Her work mostly focuses on the intersections of people, power, and the material world. At the MFA, she is working on her next book and exhibition, tentatively titled Craft Schools: Where We Make What We Inherit, which is taking her across 48 contiguous US states via train over the course of a year. She is also the co-founder of the Designing Motherhood Project and has long been interested in the confluence of gender and design. She has written widely on care work, mothering, and reproductive labor, including parenting in museums and hiding care work at work, being childfree, grief and mothers, and the architecture of maternity. The recipient of an MA and an M.Phil in Art History from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, she received an M.Phil from and is  completing her doctorate in art history at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is part of the 2022 fellow cohort at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

Michelle Millar Fisher was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2021.

Michelle Fisher. Photo: courtesy of the curator.