Devon Zimmerman is a scholar of modern European and American art and design whose research focuses on the intersection of the history of the decorative arts and the historical avant-garde. He is a Guest Curator and Senior Research Cataloguer at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. He is currently co-curating the exhibition, Recharting Modern Design, opening fall 2022 that critically examines modern design at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris by exploring how currents of nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism shaped objects of modern design and their display at the fair. He received his Ph.D. in 2020 from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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