Kerry Brougher is the founding director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California.
In 2005, he co-curated (with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles) a significant survey on synaesthesia called "Visual Music" and was noted for "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image" exhibition that used media, film, and video which covered Runa Islam, Steve McQueen, Paul Chan, and other artists.
Among other unusual techniques was his use of a 360-degree video projection for the exterior of the iconic cylindrical Hirshhorn to display Song 1 by the artist Doug Aitken.
His final exhibition at the Hirshhorn was the mixed-media project "Damage Control".
His last promotion at the Hirshhorn occurred in 2007 when Brougher was named acting director after Olga Viso stepped down.