Erin Dunn

Erin Dunn is Assistant Curator at Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, where she previously worked as the Richard Middleton Curatorial Fellow since October 2014. She has curated several exhibitions for the institution including Objectified, a selection of still lifes from the permanent collection as well as several artist-specific exhibitions ranging from the modernist painter James Brooks to the contemporary photographer Neal Slavin. Her most recent exhibition, Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography, was awarded a grant by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. In addition, she created an initiative titled Boxed In/Break Out to feature site-specific work of local artists at the Jepson Center. In May 2018, Dunn will be the lead curator of Telfair’s presentation of the Aperture exhibition The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip. She is also organizing an exhibition that considers thematic connections between early twentieth-century photographers from Telfair’s permanent collection. The exhibition, titled The Language of Vision: Early Twentieth-Century Photography, will open in August 2018. Dunn’s main interests focus on the intersection of social and cultural issues addressed through the medium of photography. She has previously worked at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia and the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BA in Art History from Emory University and an MA in Art History from the University of Georgia.