Lowery Stokes Sims (born 1949) is an American art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art known for her expertise in the work of African, African American, Latinx, Native and Asian American artists such as Wifredo Lam, Fritz Scholder, Romare Bearden, Joyce J. Scott and others. She served on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She has frequently served as a guest curator, lectured internationally and published extensively, and has received many public appointments. Sims was featured in the 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution. Education Raised Catholic, Sims graduated from Bishop Reilly High School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York in 1966. She holds a B.A. in art history from Queens College, City University of New York, and a M.A. in art history from Johns Hopkins University. Sims received her Ph.D. in art history in 1995 from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. The subject of her dissertation was the Afro-Cuban Chinese Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923–1992, which was published by the University of Texas Press in 2002. Career The Metropolitan Museum of Art Sims was on the education and curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1972 to 1999. She said her mission "was to make sure that artists of color and overlooked white artists were represented in the museum's collection." She participated in the organization of several exhibitions including Ellsworth Kelly (1979), John Marin: Selected Works from the Museum’s Collection (1981), Henry Moore: 60 Years of His Art (1983), and Charles Burchfield (1984). In 1991, she curated Stuart Davis, American Painter, and she was the principal author of the catalogue. In 1995, Ms. Sims coordinated the Museum’s venue of the exhibition I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin, organized by the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, and curated Paul Cadmus: The Seven Deadly Sins and Selections from the Collection. In 1997, Dr. Sims curated the exhibition Richard Pousette-Dart, 1916–1992 and coordinated Francesco Clemente: Indian Watercolors organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 1999, she organized Hans Hofmann in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and coordinated the exhibition Barbara Chase-Riboud: Monument Drawings, organized by the St. John’s Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina. Sims also organized several exhibitions from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in cooperation with