Bio

Shana Lopes, PhD, is an Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Born and raised in San Francisco, she has curated or co-curated exhibition such as: Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA, Sea Change, Zanele Muholi: Eye Me, and the upcoming SECA 2024 Art Award. Over the past fourteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.