Lisa Barro is a pigment researcher and conservator of photographs and works on paper in private practice in New York City. She also serves as an adjunct professor at New York University, where she teaches technical art history courses on artists’ pigments at both the undergraduate level in the art history department and the graduate level at the Institute of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on pigments, photographic image materials, and paper supports, using a materials-based approach to address preservation and art historical questions. From 2007 to 2019, Lisa was a photograph conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and previously held positions at The Library of Congress, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art. Lisa holds an M.A. in art history and an advanced certificate in conservation from the Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. As an undergraduate she studied the history of art and architecture at Harvard College, where she was first introduced to pigments as a student and lab assistant working with the Forbes Pigment Collection in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Lisa is a peer-reviewed Professional Member of the American Institute for Conservation.