Patricia Lee Daigle is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, where she has worked since 2021. Among other projects, she is currently organizing the first major museum exhibition and catalogue featuring the work of Asian American Artists in the South, set to open in the museum’s new downtown facility designed by Herzog & de Meuron in 2028. In 2023, she organized the exhibition Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative—the artist’s first touring exhibition (traveled to Spelman College Museum of Fine Art) and catalogue, In the Moment: Art from the 1950s to Now, and Tommy Kha: Eye is Another, presented as part of the inaugural Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art. She has also served as site curator for numerous traveling exhibitions including Christian Siriano: People Are People (organized by SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film) and Black American Portraits (organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
From 2015-2020, Daigle was Director of The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at The University of Memphis, organizing solo exhibitions featuring the work of Virginia Overton, Jefferson Pinder, Umar Rashid, Rodrigo Valenzuela, and others, as well as various group exhibitions. She worked at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as Curatorial Assistant in Contemporary Art from 2008-2015, where she curated the exhibitions Living in the Timeless: Drawings by Beatrice Wood (2014) and Myth and Materiality: Latin American Art from the Permanent Collection, 1930-1990 (2013). Daigle has written for numerous exhibition catalogues and other publications. She is a member of the Association of Art Museum Curators and its Professional Alliance for Curators of Color. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she specialized in race and representation in twentieth-century U.S art.
