Delphine Sims is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley where she studies the history of photography in the Americas. In 2019, she was the Mellon Curatorial Intern at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) during which time she helped organize the exhibitions Unlimited: Recent Gifts from the William Goodman and Victoria Belco Collectionand About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging. In 2018, she was a curatorial intern at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the photography department. Previously, Delphine was a curatorial assistant at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. She has worked on numerous museum exhibitions and contributed writings to several publications including Laurie Brown: Earth Edges(California Museum of Photography), New Time: Art and Feminisms in the Twenty-first Century(BAMPFA); Sprouts from the Concrete (Mattemagazine), and Where We Art (The Believermagazine). Delphine, the daughter of Susan Straight, was born in Riverside, California.
