Portland Art Museum
Julia Dolan, The Minor White Curator of Photography, oversees the research, documentation, and exhibition of the Museum’s permanent collection of more than 8,000 photographs.
Since 2010, Dr. Dolan has curated and co-curated more than twenty-five photography exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum including Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy: Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, Will Wilson (2016), Subject/Object: Modernist Photography from the Bluff Collection (2015), Richard Mosse: The Enclave (2014), and Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40 (2014). She has published essays in multiple publications including Geolocation: Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman (2015), Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40 (2014), and The Question of Hope: Robert Adams in Western Oregon (2013).
Dr. Dolan received a B.F.A. in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an M.A. in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. in Art History from Boston University. She has worked with the photography collections at institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.
In this program, Director and Chief Curator, Brian Ferriso, sits down with Dr. Dolan to go over her upbringing, career highlights, and significant exhibitions (past, present, and future) at Portland Art Museum.
This program was recorded on October 4, 2018, in the Whitsell Auditorium at Portland Art Museum.
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