Jill Dawsey

MCASD welcomes Jill Dawsey to the staff as our new Associate Curator. An adventurous curator with deep scholarly grounding, Jill has held curatorial posts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and, most recently, at the Utah Museum of fine Arts. At Utah, she established salt, an on-going series of exhibitions to help bring emerging international artists to the community. She has organized one-person exhibitions by artists such as Edgar Arceneaux, Phil Collins, Rachel Harrison, and Adriana Lara, as well as coordinating presentations of permanent collection holdings. Jill, a San Diego native, received her Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University and holds a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College.