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Shelby Graham

Director / Curator Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
Curator DANM MFA Show, 2013
Lecturer

 

Shelby Graham has an MFA in photography and is a practicing artist exhibiting her work in the US and Japan. She has been director/curator of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at UCSC since 1999 and her curatorial works include: The Harrison Studio: On Mixing, Mapping and Territory, 2013; Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite, 2012; Xiaoze Xie: Resistant Archeology, 2011, Human Conditions, 2010; Some Assembly Required: race, gender and globalization, 2009–2010; Interruptions of Hierarchies, 2008; Image as Object, 2006; Hank Willis Thomas: Signifying Blackness, 2006; and The Rhetoric of the Pose: Rethinking Hannah Wilke, 2005. Graham is on the planning committee for a new Institute for Arts & Sciences at UCSC. She has taught courses in photography, contemporary art and museum practices at the University of California, Santa Cruz; San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; Cabrillo College; Hartnell College and Seinan Gakuin University in Kyushu, Japan.