Stephanie D’Alessandro joined The Met in 2017 as Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and is curator of Surrealism Beyond Borders (closed January 2022). She has organized numerous exhibitions, including Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–17 (2010), Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–38 (2014), and Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil (2017). An expert on international modernism, she received her PhD from the University of Chicago.