Eric Lutz is associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs. He recently curated “In Search of America: Photography and the Road Trip” (2025) and co-curated “Currents 120: Jess T. Dugan” (2021).
Since joining the Museum in 2005, he has curated more than 40 exhibitions, including “Poetics of the Everyday: Amateur Photography, 1890–1970” (2019), “The Artist and the Modern Studio” (2015) and “Nicholas Nixon: 40 Years of The Brown Sisters” (2014). He earned a doctorate in art history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and he served as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Irvine; he has worked at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Notable media appearances and mentions
- SLAM explores road trip tradition with “In Search of America” (St. Louis Magazine, April 29, 2025)
- Art museum celebrates works on paper and an exceptional place to look at them (St. Louis Public Radio, Feb. 9, 2016)
- St. Louis Art Museum shows fascinating collection of images on paper (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 6, 2016)
- Mariam Ghani explores two cities in one (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 1, 2015)
- St. Louis Art Museum shows a roomful of printed rarities (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 22, 2014)
- Nicholas Nixon’s 40 years of family portraits measure passage of time (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 16, 2014)
- For photographers Gowin and Strand, key is in the printing (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 16, 2013)
- Walls Come Tumbling Down (The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2012)
Television and video
- New to the Museum at the Saint Louis Art Museum (HEC TV, April 25, 2023)
- “Poetics of the Everyday” at SLAM Celebrates the Power of Photography (HEC TV, May 1, 2019)
- Works on Paper (SLAM, July 11, 2013)
Recent and upcoming SLAM exhibitions
- In Search of America: Photography and the Road Trip (2025)
- New to the Museum: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (2023)
- Currents 120: Jess T. Dugan (2021)
- Architectural Photography from the Collection: 1850–2000 (2021)
- The Bauhaus and its Legacy (2019)
- The Bauhaus and its Legacy: Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet (2019)
- Poetics of the Everyday: Amateur Photography, 1890–1970 (2019)
- Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics (2017)
- A Decade of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (2016)
- The Artist and the Modern Studio (2015)
- Currents 110: Mariam Ghani (2015)
Eric Lutz, associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs