Curator, Photographs Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Lori Pauli is the Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Canada. With over twenty years of work as a photography curator, Pauli has organized several exhibitions including major monographic examinations of the work of Canadian photographers such as Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky in 2003, Utopia/Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James in 2008 and Domestic Symphonies: The Photographs of Margaret Watkins in 2012. She has also organized thematic exhibitions including Acting the Part: Photography as Theater in 2006 and Wonder and Invention: 19th Century British Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada in 2011. She has also recommended numerous acquisitions for the national collection from the fields of nineteenth and twentieth century photography and of contemporary photography. Pauli is currently preparing the first major retrospective exhibition on the life and work of the Swedish/British photographer, Oscar Gustave Rejlander scheduled to open at the National Gallery of Canada in May of 2018. She has also published on the work of photographers Paul-Émile Miot, André Kertesz, Stella Simon, Edward Weston, Diane Arbus and Gary Schneider. Pauli has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Ottawa where she taught the history of photography. She has been invited to speak on various topics in photography in Canada and internationally. Pauli has an M.A. in Art History from Queen’s University, Kingston, and has published widely on the work of Canadian and international photographers from the fields of both historical and contemporary photography. These publications include essays for catalogues by the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Kunsthalle, in Vienna and for the Street Level Gallery in Glasgow and for Mois de la Photo in Montréal. She has also contributed articles on photography to the journals History of Photography, Studies in Photography, and Ransom Notes along with several entries for the Encyclopedias of Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Photography. She was invited to be one of the authors for the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Standards and Guidelines Professional Practices for Art Museum Curators.