Coinciding with LBIF’s COAST Reception, Donnelly illuminates Caroline Durieux’s experimentation and subversive politics in and out of the science lab. Trained at PAFA, Durieux worked at the intersections of art and science, inventing “electron printing.”

Michelle Donnelly is the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. Prior to joining PAFA, she held curatorial positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale Center for British Art, Morgan Library & Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Heckscher Museum of Art. At the Whitney, she curated Experiments in Electrostatics: Photocopy Art from the Whitney’s Collection, 1966–1986 (2017–18) and oversaw the Sondra Gilman Study Center for works on paper. Her research has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Menil Dawing Institute, and Bancroft Library, among other institutions. She holds a PhD in the History of Art from Yale University, an MA in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Art History with Honors from Vassar College.