Hilary Schroeder joined the Asheville Art Museum in January 2018 as a curatorial assistant and the project coordinator for the reinstallation/reinterpretation of the Museum’s Collection in its greatly expanded and renovated building which opened in early 2019. In February 2020, she was made an assistant curator at the Asheville Art Museum. She recently curated the exhibition Reverberations: Exploring Movement in the Collection and was site-curator for the exhibitions Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs (organized by Syracuse University Art Galleries) and Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds (organized by the Andy Warhol Museum), all of which opened in March 2020. She is also in the final stages of coordinating the forthcoming publication Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection, to which she is a contributor as well.

She was the 2016-2017 Semmes Foundation Intern in Museum Studies at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX, where she co-organized the exhibition Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too and curated an evening of site-specific dance, Real Space: Danced Explorations. Hilary received a bachelor's degree in art history with a minor in German studies from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2012 and a master's degree in art history from the University of Georgia in Athens in 2015. Her primary research interests concern the intersection of art history and dance/kinesthesia from the 1950s to the present. In 2015, she performed in a new work by French choreographer Xavier Le Roy at the 2015 Venice Biennale and continues to maintain a personal practice in modern dance and aerial arts.