Meet Didi Dunphy, guest curator for the Albany Museum of Art
The Albany Museum of Art is pleased to welcome Didi Dunphy as our guest curator. Her first exhibition with the AMA is Neighborhood for Painters, which opens June 28 in the Haley Gallery.
Dunphy, former visiting scholar and professor in the contemporary and digital media arts at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, has for three years directed exhibition, educational programs and events as program supervisor for Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, Georgia. She has been gallery director and curator for Hotel Indigo-Athens and Indigo’s Glass Cube Project Space since 2011, and curator for The Classic Center in Athens since 2012.
A native New Yorker, Dunphy came to Athens in 2000 by way of Los Angeles. She has an MFA in the contemporary arts from San Francisco Art Institute, and is an accomplished exhibiting artist and designer. Dunphy has exhibited at major venues including the Atlanta Contemporary; COCA, St. Louis; Telfair Museum in Savannah, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art in Florida; the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California.
Features on Dunphy and her work have been written in Southern Living, Athens Magazine, Craft and CMYK. She’s also been the subject of art and exhibition reviews in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her design works, Recess of Modern Convenience Studios, have been placed in a number of collections and have been in design publications including Elle Décor, Paper, Interior Design, Vogue Living, Cookie and Metropolis, and in design book publications Downtown Chic by Rizzoli, Toy Design by Braun Publishing and Fun Rooms, Collins Design publishing.
A member of the Americans for the Arts, the American Alliance of Museums, the College Art Association, the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, Georgia Governor’s Arts and Humanities Award Advisory Committee and ArtsGeorgia, she was named in 2017 to the Women to Watch list by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Dunphy is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta.
Dunphy, former visiting scholar and professor in the contemporary and digital media arts at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, has for three years directed exhibition, educational programs and events as program supervisor for Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, Georgia. She has been gallery director and curator for Hotel Indigo-Athens and Indigo’s Glass Cube Project Space since 2011, and curator for The Classic Center in Athens since 2012.
A native New Yorker, Dunphy came to Athens in 2000 by way of Los Angeles. She has an MFA in the contemporary arts from San Francisco Art Institute, and is an accomplished exhibiting artist and designer. Dunphy has exhibited at major venues including the Atlanta Contemporary; COCA, St. Louis; Telfair Museum in Savannah, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art in Florida; the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California.
Features on Dunphy and her work have been written in Southern Living, Athens Magazine, Craft and CMYK. She’s also been the subject of art and exhibition reviews in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her design works, Recess of Modern Convenience Studios, have been placed in a number of collections and have been in design publications including Elle Décor, Paper, Interior Design, Vogue Living, Cookie and Metropolis, and in design book publications Downtown Chic by Rizzoli, Toy Design by Braun Publishing and Fun Rooms, Collins Design publishing.
A member of the Americans for the Arts, the American Alliance of Museums, the College Art Association, the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, Georgia Governor’s Arts and Humanities Award Advisory Committee and ArtsGeorgia, she was named in 2017 to the Women to Watch list by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Dunphy is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta.
