DELPHINE SIMS
Photo by Lewis Watts Delphine Sims is a PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley, where she studies the history of photography in the Americas. Her research focuses on the ways in which race, gender, geography, and urbanity inform and redefine landscape photography. Currently, Delphine is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Andrew Wyeth Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts within the National Portrait Gallery. In 2019, she was the Mellon Curatorial Intern at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), during which time she helped organize the exhibitions Unlimited: Recent Gifts from the William Goodman and Victoria Belco Collection and About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging. In 2018, she was a curatorial intern at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the photography department. From 2013 to 2016, Delphine was a curatorial assistant in the photography department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA). She has worked on numerous museum exhibitions and contributed writings to several publications including New Time: Art and Feminisms in the Twenty-first Century (BAMPFA), More Dreamers of the American Dream (Riverside Art Museum), Laurie Brown: Earth Edges (California Museum of Photography), and Looking In, Looking Out, Latin American Photography (SBMA). Her writing can also be found in Matte magazine, The Believer magazine, and Aperture. Delphine has organized and moderated many public programs for museums and art institutions including at San Francisco Camerawork, BAMPFA, and Autograph ABP (London, UK).
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