Jill Dawsey

Jill Dawsey is Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She has organized over twenty exhibitions at MCASD, including For Dear Life:Art, Medicine, and Disability (2024, co-curated with Isabel Casso); Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s (2022, co-curated with Michelle White, Menil Collection); and Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist (touring 2021-2024). Past projects include Being Here with You/ Estando aquí contigo: 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana (2018, co-organized with Anthony Graham) and The Uses of Photography: Art, Politics, and the Reinvention of a Medium (2016, University of California Press). She has organized solo exhibitions and projects with artists Scoli Acosta, Carmen Argote, Andrea Chung, Yve Laris Cohen, Colter Jacobsen, Griselda Rosas, and Xaviera Simmons, among others. Prior to MCASD, Dawsey held curatorial posts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. She has taught curatorial practice at California College of the Arts and art history at the University of Utah and UC Irvine. She attended Bryn Mawr College, the Whitney Independent Study Program, and received a Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University.