Jeffrey Richmond-Moll is the George Putnam Curator of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum and a graduate faculty member at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. He received his A.B. from Princeton University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. His projects have been supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation for American Art, and Wyeth Foundation for American Art, among others. He was the curator, editor, and lead author of Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery, and Imagination in American Realism (Georgia Museum of Art, 2021) and Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund (co-published by the Georgia Museum of Art and the University of Georgia Press, 2022). Other recent exhibition projects include a series of durational video performances about sea level rise (2020), the resurgence of abstraction among contemporary artists (2021), modern Native American printmaking (2021), American modernism on paper (2022), and intergenerational trauma and reconciliation in the nuclear age through cameraless photography (2024). In October 2023, he will join the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts as its George Putnam Curator of American Art.

Photo: Dorothy Kozlowski

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