About

Joanna Szupinska is senior curator at the California Museum of Photography (CMP) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), where she has been a curator since 2013. Her current exhibition Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures, the artist’s first retrospective, is accompanied by an extensive scholarly catalogue (2022) and is traveling nationally (2022–25). Her curatorial work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Getty Foundation, Graham Foundation, Warhol Foundation, Fulbright Specialist Program, and Institut français. She has taught courses and mentored graduate students in curatorial practice and methods at UCR, California College of the Arts, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Szupinska is pursuing a PhD in Art History at UCLA, where she is writing a dissertation on the work of Polish photographer Zofia Rydet (1911–97). Previously she earned her MA in Art History at UCLA, MA in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and BA in Art at UCLA. Her graduate research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, Kosciuszko Foundation, American Council for Polish Culture, Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research, and UCLA’s Center for European and Russian Studies.