Interview with Natasha Egan
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Natasha Egan (she/her) grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has served as the executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography since 2011, and prior to that, she was its associate director and curator. At Columbia College Chicago, she teaches photography and humanities. She also attended Columbia College Chicago as a student, receiving two degrees: an MA in museum studies and an MFA in photography. She has served as guest curator for the FotoFest Biennial in Houston, the United States pavilion curator for the Photo Dubai Exhibition and guest curator for the Lianzhou Photography Biennial in China and has received travel grants to Korea and Germany where she served as a freelance curator. Exhibitions she has curated at the Museum of Contemporary Photography include Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea and Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place. She has written essays for several cultural art publications. Besides her degrees from Columbia College Chicago, she also earned a Certificate in Photography from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from Puget Sound. Length: 60:50 minutes. Transcript: 22 pages.
Publication Date
12-2-2022
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
Keywords
higher education, photography, museum, exhibitions, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Boston, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois
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Arts and Humanities | Education | Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Midwa, Peter, "Interview with Natasha Egan" (2022). College Oral Histories, 2022. 7.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ohx2022/7
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This interview was conducted by graduate student Peter Midwa, and is part of the Oral History of Columbia College Chicago project documenting the history of this Chicago, Illinois institution. The biography and interview abstract were composed by undergraduate student Sydney Shelly.