Isabella Lores-Chavez

Isabella Lores-Chavez

Isabella Lores-Chavez is currently Associate Curator of European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She completed her Ph.D. in Art History at Columbia University in May 2022. Her dissertation, supervised by David Freedberg, focused on the circulation and depiction of plaster casts in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Isabella was the 2020-2022 Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. From 2018 to 2019, she was the Theodore Rousseau Fellow in European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At Columbia, Isabella served as a teaching assistant and instructor for the Core Curriculum course known as Art Humanities. From 2016 to 2018, she was also the Academic Coordinator for the Getty-funded project Spanish Italy and the Iberian Americas. Isabella received her B.A. in Art History from Yale in 2012. In 2013, she curated a small exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, entitled Dutch and French Genre Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection. She has also worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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