Francesca Ferrari is an art historian specializing in early twentieth-century European and Latin American art. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, having obtained her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She holds an MA in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in art history and English from the Université de Lausanne. At present, she is working on a book that examines the intersection of geometric abstraction, physical motion, and sensory stimulation in post-WWI avant-garde art. Her research focuses on the international development of abstraction, art’s role in shaping new models of corporeality and subjectivity in the so-called Machine Age, and the co-defining histories of modern art, dance, and performance. Besides the Met, she has received fellowships from the Museum of Modern Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Stiftung Arp e.V., and has curated exhibitions at MoMA, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), and Monaco’s Palais Princier. Her work is featured in publications such as Modernism/modernity, Oxford Art Journal, and Afterimage, as well as in several peer reviewed journals, exhibition catalogues, and virtual research platforms.