Tamara H. Schenkenberg is an independent curator and writer based in St. Louis. Her primary focus is on modern and contemporary art, with research interests in identity and displacement, as well feminist practices.

From 2017 – 2025, Tamara was a curator at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, where she organized major exhibitions on the work of Ruth Asawa, Hannah Wilke, Medardo Rosso, and Zarina, oversaw site-specific commissions by Faye HeavyShield and Delcy Morelos, and spearheaded the organization’s publications program.

A native of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tamara was a Fulbright scholar at the Free University of Berlin, earned her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was selected as a 2022 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow.