Dr Rosalind McKever is a curator and art historian specialising in 20th-century European art, its relationship with earlier periods, and its reception in Britain and North and South America.
Currently Curator of Paintings & Drawings at the V&A, she works primarily with modern art, curating exhibitions and displays, developing the collection through major acquisitions, and researching and writing about post-1900 art for a range of audiences.
Rosalind's next major exhibition Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art explores a central figure in the modern art world in Paris, London and New York opens at the V&A in 2026. Her 2022 V&A exhibition Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear was the most visited exhibition in the UK that year (The Art Newspaper). In 2018 she co-curated Boccioni: Continuity in Space at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo and later co-edited the book Boccioni in Brazil (EDUSP, 2022). At the National Gallery, London she worked on major exhibitions including Monet & Architecture, Michalengelo & Sebastiano and Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire.
Her book Vanessa Bell: Modern Living was published by Thames and Hudson in 2025. She has published widely on modern art in Apollo, Art History, the Burlington Magazine, the Getty Research Journal, World of Interiors and many edited volumes. She has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues, including Courtauld Impressionists (National Gallery, 2018) Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light (National Gallery, 2019), Cézanne at the Whitworth (Manchester, 2019), Divine People: A Portrait of Ambrose McEvoy (Philip Mould, 2019), Beldy: Seta, Cotone, Lana, Raso (Studio Museo Casorati, 2024) and Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector (Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Royal Academy of Arts, 2026). , (P
Rosalind was the inaugural Curatorial Resident at the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2025. Rosalind has previously held the Harry M. Weinrebe Curatorial Fellowship at the National Gallery, London, and the Jane and Morgan Whitney Senior Research Fellowship in the Modern and Contemporary Art department at the Metropolitan Museum. She has served on the Curatorial Committee for the Association for Art History and participated in the Association of Art Museum Curators Engagement Program and the Getty Paper Project programme Inside Drawings at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston. She studied History of Art with Italian at the University of Leeds and obtained her PhD on Italian Futurism’s relationship with the past at Kingston University in collaboration with the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in 2012. She has taught art history at Kingston University and the University of Sussex.
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