Talks

Photo History’s Futures: Casey Riley

A smiling woman stands in a gallery space.

Casey Riley. Courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art

Tuttle Lecture Hall
February 12, 2026 5:30–6:30 p.m.

Join us for a lecture by author and curator Casey Riley on groundbreaking Indigenous photography from the nineteenth century to present.

This semester’s installment of Photo History’s Futures, highlighting exciting voices in the field of photography, features Casey Riley, chair of global contemporary art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Riley is co-author of In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now (2023) and cocurator of the 2024 exhibition of the same name, a project undertaken with a council of primarily Indigenous artists, scholars, and knowledge sharers. 

Moderated by Maya Hayda, doctoral student in the Department of Art & Archaeology. Cosponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum.  

LATE THURSDAYS! The Museum's Late Thursdays programming is made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.