Barbara Tannenbaum has organized over 125 exhibitions during her four-decade career as a curator and academic. Recent exhibitions organized include Ann Hamilton: still and moving • the tactile image; Refocusing Photography: China at the Millennium; Matt Eich and Tyler Mitchell: Sunshine, Shadow, and A Rainbow.  She organized the first museum show of print-on-demand photobooks in 2011 and co-organized the first large-scale international exhibition chronicling women’s historic achievements in fine art photography. She has curated solo shows of numerous living artists, including Aaron Rothman, TR Ericsson, Hank Willis Thomas, and Lois Conner. Tannenbaum came to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2011 after serving for 26 years as chief curator at the Akron Art Museum, where she grew the photography collection from 500 to 2,500 works and organized the first traveling solo museum exhibition of the work of Adam Fuss.