{"id":1017,"date":"2026-03-20T03:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/?page_id=1017"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:07:49","slug":"delphine-sims","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/delphine-sims\/","title":{"rendered":"Delphine Sims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-section-content-custom-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-left-medium getwid-padding-right-medium\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:1140px\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delphine Sims<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading__content\">She\/Her<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <em>Aperture<\/em>, <em>Matte magazine<\/em>, and the <em>Believer<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: Lewis Watts, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/presenters\/\" style=\"color:#000000\">BACK<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/01\/0EPmCeUNr-ZxOyUUbYk3Als2FpZVwOg9QBLP1U7se_E.jpeg\" alt=\"Delphine Sims\" class=\"wp-image-911\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1017","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"qubely_landscape":false,"qubely_portrait":false,"qubely_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"cm","author_link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/author\/cherylmann\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}