Skip to main content

Peter Galassi

♂  American, born 1951

Peter worked at MoMA from about 1975 to 1989 as Curator , and he was head of the Department of Photography from 1991–2011 .

Eight exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Curator
Photo of the exhibition Picture Puzzles

12 August to 16 November 1975

Man Ray, Frederick Sommer, Robert Cumming and Peter Galassi, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography

6 May to 5 July 1981

Timothy O'Sullivan, William Henry Fox Talbot, Henri Le Secq and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions

18 August to 6 November 1984

Lucas Samaras, William Eggleston, Jan Groover and Peter Galassi, among others, were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Rosalind Solomon: Ritual

3 July to 30 September 1986

Peter Galassi and Rosalind Fox Solomon were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work

10 September to 29 November 1987

Henri Cartier-Bresson and Peter Galassi were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People

15 September to 13 November 1988

Nicholas Nixon and Peter Galassi were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition New Photography 4: Patrick Faigenbaum, Reagan Louie, and Michael Schmidt

20 October 1988 to 10 January 1989

Peter Galassi, Reagan Louie, Patrick Faigenbaum and Michael Schmidt were involved.

Curator
Photo of the exhibition Walker Evans: American Photographs

19 January to 11 April 1989

Walker Evans and Peter Galassi were involved.