Rena M. Hoisington is curator and head of the department of old master prints at the National Gallery of Art, where she has worked since 2018. While at the National Gallery, she has curated Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris (2026) and Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya (2021).

Hoisington was previously senior curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she organized several exhibitions including Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein (2011–2012) and Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists’ Books (2017). She has also worked at the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Morgan Library and Museum. Additionally, Hoisington has taught art history courses at The Johns Hopkins University and Stony Brook University. She has contributed articles to Print Quarterly and essays to Camille Corot: Natur und Traum (2012), Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-Century France (2013), Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830 (2024), and Printing Colour 1700-1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions (2024).  

Hoisington holds an MA and PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.