Kimberly A. Jones has been curator of nineteenth-century French paintings at the National Gallery of Art since 2016. A former museum fellow at the Musée national du château de Pau (1990–1991) and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1993–1994), she joined the curatorial staff of the National Gallery of Art in 1995 as assistant curator of French paintings.

Jones has lectured and published widely on a variety of topics related to French art of the 19th century. She has served as curator and catalogue author for a number of exhibitions in her field including Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment (2024–2025); Degas at the Races (1998); Edouard Vuillard (2003–2004); In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet (2008); From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection (2010–2011); Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art (2011); Degas/Cassatt (2014), Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism (2016–2017) and most recently Degas at the Opéra (2020).

Jones holds a PhD and MA from the University of Maryland with specialization in 19th-century European and American art, as well as a dual degree in art history and studio art from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College).