Kristen Gresh

Kristen Gresh is the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA).

She is the curator of Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico and She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, and the author of the exhibitions’ companion publications. Previously, Gresh lived in Paris and Cairo for 15 years where she worked as curator and taught history of photography. Recent publications include contributions to Getting the Picture: The History & Visual Culture of the News (2015), The Photo Diary of John G. Morris (2010), and On Display: Visual Politics, Material Culture, and Public Education (forthcoming). Her Ph.D. dissertation from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales was titled, “The Family of Man: A Critical History of an American Photographic Exhibition,” parts of which have been published in the academic journals Etudes Photographiques and History of Photography.