Yaëlle Biro

Yaëlle Biro is Associate Curator of African art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She is a specialist in the way that African arts were received in the West at the beginning of the 20th century. A Doctor in Art History at the Université Paris 1 - Sorbonne (2010), she was the recipient of the Museum Quai Branly Jacques Chirac thesis prize for this work. At the Met she has been the curator of the exhibitions African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde (2012, recipient of the Association of American Curators award), In and Out of the Studio : Photographic Portraits from West Africa (2015) and The Face of Dynasty : Royal Crests from Western Cameroon (2017 - 2018), amongst others. The book drawn from her thesis has just been published with presses du réel by the title Creating the Gaze: Dealers, Networks and African Art Objects at the Dawn of the 20th Century.