Iris Colburn is a curator based in Chicago. Her research focuses on conceptual practices, sound, and historical amnesia. She is currently curatorial associate at the MCA Chicago, where she recently curated Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons (2024), the MCA’s presentation of Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence (2024), and performances with Joelle Mercedes, Katinka Kleijn, and Micah Schippa. Her independent projects include Over My Head: Encounters with Conceptual Art in a Flyover City, 1984-2015 (2025), co-curated with Gareth
Thomas Kaye for the third annual Chicago Exhibition Weekend, and the group exhibition sounds better with you (2025), co-curated with Gabriel Garza at Arts of Life, Chicago. She has contributed writing to several publications including Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, Pope.L: Campaign, and Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums. Colburn holds a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was awarded the Eugene
Wurzel Memorial Art Scholarship.
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