Arpad Kovacs Selects 2025

Arpad Kovacs is an associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. His exhibitions have focused on twentieth-century and contemporary photography, with a specific interest in conceptual practices and time-based media. He organized the monographic exhibitions Hiroshi Sugimoto: Past Tense (2014); Werner Herzog: Hearsay of the Soul (2014); Tacita Dean (2022); Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision(2023) as well as thematic shows, including In Focus: Animalia (2015); Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media(2017); Encore: Reenactment in Contemporary Photography (2019), among others. He is currently working on an exhibition and accompanying publication that will survey the work of German photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and York University.