Shira Backer is Leon Levy Associate Curator at the Jewish Museum, where has worked on exhibitions including Ilit Azoulay: Mere Things; RBG Collars: Photographs by Elinor Carucci; After “the Wild”: Contemporary Art from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection; We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz; and Martha Rosler: Irrespective. She is interested in contemporary art with a special focus on sculpture, as well as on the intersection of art and politics. Previously, she was Assistant Curator at the American Federation of Arts.