Biography
Sophie Lynch is a Ph.D. candidate pursuing a joint degree in the departments of Art History and Cinema & Media Studies studying modern and contemporary art, photography, and film from the late 19th century to the present. Following her interests in historical intersections of bodies and technologies and relations between visual representations and belief, her dissertation considers blurred images in works of photography and film from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She has held curatorial and museum positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smart Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Recently, she has curated exhibitions and screenings for the Film Studies Center, the Smart Museum of Art, Vtape, and the Art Gallery of Guelph.
