Portrait 2024

Erin Dunn is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums in Savannah, GA where she has been a member of the curatorial team since 2014. She has organized numerous exhibitions including Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Feels like Freedom: Phillip J. Hampton, and Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present in collaboration with The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Current projects include an exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed artist Anila Quayyum Agha and the first major exhibition to explore the profound impact of Georgia’s Ossabaw Island on arts, culture, and the sciences in the United States during the latter half of the twentieth century. Her writing has appeared in the exhibition catalogue for Phillip J. Hampton, Late Night Polaroids: Photographs by Emily Earl, and Seven Rivers, a monograph of photographer Ansley West Rivers. In addition, Dunn spearheads Telfair’s #art912 initiative, which raises the visibility and promotes the vitality of artists living and working in Savannah. Dunn was the recipient of the Fall 2023 Margie E. West Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. She holds a BA from Emory University and an MA from the University of Georgia.