Serena Urry retired as the Chief Conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 2024. Before moving to Cincinnati, she served as Senior Conservator of Paintings at the Barnes Foundation, preparing its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection for the historic move to downtown Philadelphia. Prior to that, she was Conservator of Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts where she conserved paintings ranging in date from the 14th to the 20th century. She has a B.A. from Tufts University, and a M.A. in art history and a diploma in Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She was awarded a residency by the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, and a fellowship by Save Venice in Venice. She has lectured and published about many of the conservation projects she has undertaken.