Maggie Adler has over two decades of art world experience, having distinguished herself as a curator, speaker, writer, mentor, nonprofit fundraiser, and organizational leader. She brings her historical art expertise to contemporary projects with a focus on supporting artists and inspiring institutional, individual, and organizational growth.

She spent more than a decade as Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, She is now an independent curator specializing in the relationships between historical and contemporary art. Prior to the Carter, she held posts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Williams College Museum of Art, and the Addison Gallery of American Art.

Originally, her scholarly research focused on nineteenth-century art, but she has become well known for collaboration with living artists on site-specific installations, including Jean Shin, Gabriel Dawe, Mark Dion, and Justin Favela.

She has organized numerous exhibitions, including Horizon Lines (2017); In Our Own Words: Native Impressions (2018); The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion (2020); Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington (2020); Sandy Rodriguez In Isolation (2021); Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation (2023); and Jean Shin: The Museum Body (2024).

Her publication highlights include Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation (published by University of California Press, 2023); Homer|Remington (distributed by Yale University Press, 2020); and Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), which was nominated for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award. Adler has also collaborated with artists Gabriel Dawe on Embodied Light (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2016) and Mark Dion on The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion (Yale University Press, 2020) and a coloring book with Sandy Rodriguez.

Adler holds a Bachelor of Arts in classical languages and the history of art and a Master of Arts in the history of art from Williams College. She has served as Chair of the Association of Historians of American Art; was selected as a Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership; she is a multi-term commissioner of public art for the City of Fort Worth, Texas; and she serves the Williams College Museum of Art, Arrivals Art Fair, and the National Juneteenth Museum in an advisory capacity.