Leslie K. Brown

about - biography

After serving close to eight years as curator of the Photographic Resource Center, Leslie K. Brown began the Ph.D. program in
art history at Boston University in fall 2009 as a full-time student. She is focusing on the history of photography.

During her tenure at the PRC, she curated and oversaw over 40 exhibitions. Known for innovative and engaging exhibitions that
focused on emerging photographers and new ideas, the PRC's gallery program garnered consistently positive regional and
national press under her guidance as well as an award from the New England chapter of the Association of International Art
Critics (AICA). Brown recently curatedOut of the Box: Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection for the DeCordova
Sculpture Park and Museum (October 24, 2009 – October 2010) and co-organized the 2009 Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color
Photography Awards (November 13, 2009 – January 24, 2010) for the PRC. She is currently working on an exhibition of Dan
Ranalli's environmental work to be shown at the Provincetown Art Museum (winter 2010).

Brown received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998, specializing in modernism and focusing
on photohistory. Prior to coming to Boston, Brown worked at the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, TN and also worked
on projects at the University of Texas at Austin's museum and the Austin Museum of Art. She has also taught as an adjunct
faculty member at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Brown regularly serves as an invited guest juror and reviewer for portfolio review events, such as Photolucida and Fotofest, as
well as colleges and juried exhibitions at local and regional galleries and museums. She is a native of Rochester, NY and the
product of a Kodak family.

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