Kendall DeBoer is the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, and a PhD Candidate in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her curatorial and scholarly work focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, engaging artists’ use of unconventional and everyday materials from cellophane, tinsel, and glitter to aluminum foil, balloons, and garlands.  She is interested in how materials, decoration, and theatricality generate affect, intimacy, and atmosphere, and in the intersections of craft and self-taught art.

Previously, DeBoer held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Contemporary Austin; the Blanton Museum of Art; and the Harry Ransom Center. She completed a Ephemera Society of America—Winterthur Fellowship in January 2026, and participated in the 2019 Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

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