Paul Roth
Curator of Photography and Media Arts
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Paul Roth is senior curator of photography and media arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, where he has worked since 1996. He is the organizer of Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power, open at the Corcoran from September 2008 through January 2009. His recent shows include Sally Mann: What Remains (2004, with Philip Brookman). He has organized a number of film series for the National Gallery of Art, including the major retrospectives Metric and Metaphoric: The Films of Peter Kubelka (2005), I…Dreaming: The Visionary Cinema of Stan Brakhage (2002), and The Films of Gordon Parks (1997). Roth previously held curatorial positions at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, where he was the archivist for the Robert Frank Collection; and at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, where he was the Ansel Adams Fellow. He has written extensively on photography and film for a number of national and international publications, including The Washington Post, Katalog, and Photo Review. Roth has lectured on the subjects of photographic history and film studies at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, and at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

His next exhibition is Edward Burtynsky: Oil, opening at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the fall of 2009.

Previous Exhibitions

Memento:
Muriel Hasbun Photographs

Joseph Mills:
Inner City

Native Land:
Photographs from the Robert G. Lewis Collection

Strange But True:
The Arizona Photographs of Allen Dutton

ALSO SEE

:: Current Corcoran Curators

:: Curator's Journals Project

Past Exhibitions

:: 2007
:: 2006
:: 2005
:: 2004
:: 2003
:: 2002
:: 2001
:: 2000