Shana Lopes
Juror Bio:
Shana Lopes, PhD, is an Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA. Born and raised in San Francisco, she earned her doctorate in art history from Rutgers University, specializing in the history of photography. Over the past sixteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has recently curated or co-curated exhibitions, including Around Group f.64, Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, Sea Change, A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA, 2024 SECA Art Award, and Zanele Muholi: Eye Me. She is currently working on the upcoming exhibition
Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules, which will be accompanied by a book from Aperture.
Her writing has appeared in History of Photography, Art Journal, and 1000 Words.
