Sonia Shechet Epstein is a curator, writer, and editor working at the cutting edge of science and cinema. She is Curator of Science and Technology and Executive Editor, Sloan Science & Film at Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.

Since joining MoMI in 2015, her role has expanded to working across departments overseeing an online publication, producing associated educational materials, overseeing annual screenplay awards, curating interdisciplinary film series and public programs, programming the Museum’s annual First Look Film Festival, and organizing exhibitions (including recent installations by David Levine and Fiona Tan). She is part of a small curatorial team collaboratively researching and developing a new permanent exhibition drawing from MoMI’s collection. Sonia is currently working on a major collaboration with ICP on the exhibition Overexposed planned for 2026, which focuses on art and medical imaging.

Prior her position at Museum of the Moving Image, Sonia was a Senior Program Associate at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation evaluating proposals for a multi-platform arts program to enhance public understanding of science. Prior to that, she worked for Nobel Laureate neuroscientist Dr. Eric R. Kandel at Columbia University preparing his book The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present (Random House, 2012), and helping to produce The Brain Series for PBS.

Sonia is a trustee of the On the Water chapter of the Awesome Foundation, and was a founding mentor of the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC. She graduated with a BA in Psychology and Art History from Middlebury College, and has a Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies from NYU where she was the recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship for Distinguished Master’s Students. She lectures internationally on the intersection of science and cinema.