Alexandra Munroe is an American curator and author known for her expertise in postwar and contemporary Asian art. She is presently Senior Curator at Large, Global Arts, for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she has led the museum’s Asian Art Initiative since its founding in 2006. From 2017 to 2023, she served as director of curatorial affairs for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, supervising teams in New York and Abu Dhabi. From 1998 to 2005, Monroe served as director of the museum at the Japan Society of New York.
Monroe has organized more than 40 art exhibitions in her career as a curator. While still a graduate student in art history, Monroe organized "Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective" (1989) at the Center for International Contemporary Arts in New York. Her 1994 exhibition "Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky" is credited with establishing the field of postwar Japanese art history in North America. Munroe went on to curate the first major American retrospectives of Daido Moriyama (1999), Yoko Ono (2000), Mu Xin (2001), Cai Guo-Qiang (2008), and Lee Ufan (2011). In 2017, she was lead curator of the Guggenheim's "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World", and in 2024 she curated "Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust" alongside the 60th Venice Biennale.