Sidra Stich is an American art historian, museum curator, and travel writer based in San Francisco.
She completed her undergraduate degree and earned a master's degree in Visual Arts Education from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Art History from UC Berkeley where she wrote her dissertation on Surrealism and Picasso.
[citation needed] She was awarded research fellowships at the National Gallery, Washington, DC, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and The Berlin Academy.
She made a career decision to travel and write about modern art rather than return to teaching or as a curating.
She has made guides to France (1999); Britain and Ireland (2000); Spain (2003); San Francisco (2003); Paris (2003); Northern Italy (2005); and London (2005).