Delphine Sims

Assistant Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Delphine Sims is an assistant curator in the Department of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She completed her PhD in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley with a focus on Blackness and landscape photography in the United States. For her dissertation research, Delphine was awarded predoctoral fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts within the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She previously held curatorial roles at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Her writing can be found in Aperture, Matte magazine, and the Believer. 

Photo credit: Lewis Watts, 2020