Di Giacinto Morris Private Collection, London

Curator and Advisor, September 2019 – Present

• Select emerging and historical contemporary artists for private collection
• Manage all shipping and storage of the collection, divided across two continents and three locations
• Manage loans to museums and exhibitions
• Educate the collector and her family about the contemporary art world
• Artists acquired for the collection include Theodora Allen, Hangama Amiri, Kevin Brisco Jr, Chelsea Culprit, Celia Paul, Ilana Savdie, Joan Semmel, Agathe Snow, and many others

89 Greene (at Signs and Symbols gallery), LES, New York

Co-Founder and Curator, May 2022 – present

• Co-founder of project space that highlights emerging and overlooked artists
• Work with existing gallery artists to select compatible projects
• Write all promotional and press material
• Install work with artists
• Artists include Alex McQuilkin, Kelsey Henderson, Nadia Ayari, Claudia Bitran, Theodore Boyer

Architectural Association School of Architecture, London

Faculty, HTS Studies, October 2020 – present

• Create and lead courses on the history of exhibitions, display, and architectural legacies
• Lead graduate seminar
• Advise Year 4 and 5 graduate students 

Sevil Dolmaci Gallery, Istanbul

Creative Director, September 2019 – June 2022

• Created new mission statement 
• Selected and recruited new roster of artists
• Worked with existing roster of artists 
• Installed exhibitions 
• Liaised with press
• Managed shipping and loans
• Trained gallery employees on proper procedures for working with artists and estates
• Created Istanbul residency for international practitioners in visual arts and music
• Liaised with local collectors
• Created events for public and special guests

Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York

Director Emerita, MA Contemporary Art Program, Autumn 2007 – September 2019

• Designed and led a MA program in contemporary art covering art history, theory, criticism, and curating 
• Created and taught courses including Artist Estates and Foundations; Curating Contemporary Art; Salon to Biennial: The History of Exhibition and Display;The Work of Art from Studio to Museum; The Artist’s Studio; Art, Luxury, Fashion; Women and Art
• Supervised MA dissertations and third semester projects 
• Represented the Institute at recruitment, public, and scholarly events both domestic and international
• Worked across departments to create collaborative programs and projects, including career, alumni, and professional networking events
• Worked with external partners such as Untitled art fair and the Rauschenberg Foundation to realize public student projects
• Recruited and managed a team of faculty—full-time, proportional and adjunct—and staff including Program Manager and Travel Assistant
• As part of academic team, achieved NYSED and NASAD accreditation
• Created and oversaw annual department budget of over $1,000,000 USD
• Steered and implemented the design of curriculum, including implementing a Third Semester practical thesis option, a new range of elective courses, and a public exhibition program
• Devised a public program of panels and events for peers and colleagues, all events live streamed and archived
• Devised and instituted institution policies and infrastructure with the CEO and Academic Planning Committee
• Planned and executed week-long field study trips to art centers and events in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia such as the Venice Biennale, Art Dubai/Sharjah Biennial, the Sao Paolo Biennial, Beijing/Shanghai Biennial, Havana and Mexico City
• Created and hosted series of guest artist lectures including Carolee Schneemann, Fred Wilson, Dara Birnbaum, Dan Graham, Glenn Ligon, Diana Al-Hadid, Ahmed Alsoudani, Alfredo Jaar, DAZE, James Welling, and many more

Art Legacy Planning LLC, November 2017 – 2019

Partner and Co-Founder

• Co-founded a consulting company that represents artists estates
• Managed all aspects of the business including recruiting clients, working with artists to devise their legacy strategies, and the advising on creation of legal structures for clients
• Represented Art Legacy Planning at art events including art fairs, biennials, conferences
• Wrote press releases and essays on artists 
• Recruited and managed staff and freelance collaborators
• Collaborated with other estate professionals

Serpentine Gallery, London

Curatorial Team member, London 24-Hour Interview Marathon, Summer 2006

• Collaborated with a team of five to lead ambitious and unique 24-hour interview marathon, with Rem Koolhaasand Hans Ulrich Obrist and over 70 participants 
• Co-led the research team (with Francesco Manacorda and Sally Tallant), making longlists and shortlists of speakers across disciplines, and working in collaboration with a team of curators, architects and designers 
• Speakers included: Doris Lessing, Mary Midgley, Hanif Kureishi, Zaha Hadid, David Adjaye, Richard Hamilton, Hussein Chalayan, Damien Hirst, Giles Deacon, and Ken Loach
• The event was a critical and financial success with mainstream and art press coverage as well as sold out attendance and became the blueprint for future marathon events around the world

Artangel, London

Founder and Head of Interaction, 1997-2002

• Founded Artangel Interaction, a series of educational curatorial projects based around Artangel’s groundbreaking projects in unusual public spaces
• Worked with renowned artists including Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, Richard Wentworth, Matthew Barney, Janet Cardiff, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov and Tony Oursler
• Responsible for all aspects of the project—curatorial, financial and administrative
• Led collaborations with The Architectural Association School of Architecture, Iran Heritage Foundation, The Photographers’ Gallery and The Science Museum

Camden Arts Centre, London

Education Assistant and Coordinator, 1995-1997

• Worked with education coordinator (and ultimately as coordinator) to organize and execute a program for an arts audience and the local community
• Worked with teachers, artists, and speakers
• Wrote activities reports for trustees, fundraising applications, including a successful Arts4Everyone bid
• Devised workshops for schools and community groups
• Organized courses for children and adults
• Gave gallery talks to college groups and the general public

Ken Kiff and Friends, Albertz Benda Gallery, New York, July 2023 – August 2023

Youth Hostel, marytwo, Lucerne, Switzerland, October – November 2022

Slip Slidin’ Away: Reuven Israel, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery, Istanbul, May 2022

Everything Has Its Place, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery, Istanbul, September – October 2021

Marie Jacotey: You Pinned Me Down Like a Butterfly on a Wall, Ballon Rouge @ Pablo’s Birthday, March – April 2020

Carmen Argote: Warm Is a Black, Ballon Rouge, November – December 2018

The Art of Fashion, Fountain House Gallery, NY, June – July 2017

Escape Attempts, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, LA, February – April 2017

What’s Right What’s Left: Democracy in America, Phoenix Gallery, NY, January 2016

E.A.T.: Experiments in Art and Technology, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, July – October 2015

Arslan Sukan, While You Were Surfing, Five Eleven Gallery, New York, Jan – Feb 2015

Linea: Katie Holten and Mariateresa Sartori, Bosi Contemporary, New York, May 2014

Shony Rivnay, Bosi Contemporary, New York, March 2014

Republika, Bosi Contemporary, New York, February 2014

Syri-Arts Benefit Auction, Beirut Exhibition Center, November 2013

Royal Academy: Encounter @ Katara Arts Center, Doha, Dec 2012 – March 2013

Sweethearts, Houldsworth Gallery, March 2012

28 Rue Bonaparte series, B.E.S, July 2009 – June 2010

A-WAL, on-line exhibition, opened 2006

Brunswick Hotel, selector of artist commission, Glasgow, Spring 2007

Sandanista, selector of artist commission, Leeds, Autumn 2006

XS, (selector), FA Projects, London, 25 June – 31 July 2004

Traditional Urbanism, The Prince’s Foundation for Architecture, London, 15 – 29 November 2003 

Imaging Contemporary London, (co-curator), Houldsworth Gallery, July – September 2003

Victor Burgin: Nietzsche’s Paris, Architectural Association Gallery, 9 Oct – 17 Nov 2000

Alan Ball & Tatsuo Inagaki, (co-curator), The International Building, Royal Holloway University of London, 20 Nov – 1 Dec 2000 

The Point of Light, (co-curator), The Photographers’ Gallery, 28 Oct – 11 Nov 2000

Books

Creative Legacies: Critical Issues in Artist Estates, (Co-editor), Lund Humphries, 2020 

New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practices, IB Tauris, 2019

Marta Jovanovic, CUNY, 2014

Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Artists in 1970s London, IB Tauris, 2012

Haluk Akakce, (editor and contributor), Gallerist, 2009

1001 Buildings, (contributor), Quarto, 2007

Art New York, (co-author), Ellipsis, 2000

Recent Architecture in The Netherlands, (co-author), Ellipsis, 1998 (published in English, Dutch, French, German, Cantonese)

Chapters and Catalogue Essays

‘This is (the New Normal) America’, Kunsthal Potsdam, Summer 2021

‘Pretty When You Cry: Cristina BanBan’, Albertz Benda Gallery, May 2020

‘Beyond the Body’, Tina Lechner: Susan Told Me, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, 2019

‘21^st c Feminist Positions: Nadja Marcin and the Reclamation of the Female Figure,  Sandstein Verlag, 2019

‘Brie Ruais: Mapping Experience’, Brie Ruais, Albertz Benda Gallery, March 2019

‘Elif Uras: Body, Vessel, Architecture’, Elif Uras, Galerist, December 2018

‘A Tireless Persistence and Strength’, CANAN: Behind Mount Qaf, Arter, Istanbul, 2017

‘Batia Shani’, 2016

‘She’s Here: Antoinette Aurelle, Anne Daems, Cecilia Edefalk, Anna Kleberg, Jenny Källman, Kaja Leijon’, Kamarade Gallery, Sweden, 2016

‘Sherin Guirguis’, COLA essay, 2015

‘Judy Chicago: Heads Up’, David Richard Contemporary, Sante Fe, 2014

‘Touching Petals: Will Ryman’s Roses’, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2012

‘Metaphysical Journeys: Will Ryman at Paul Kasmin Gallery’, 2012

‘Wonder Women’, Rooster Gallery, 2011

‘Beverly Fishman’, David Richard Contemporary, Sante Fe, New Mexico, 2010

Active Liberty Institute panel, Phillips Auction House NY, May 2010

 ‘Sarah Lucas’ Toilet Humour’, Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender, ed Barbara Penner and Olga Gersheson, Temple University Press, 2009

‘Cultivated Wilderness’, The ArtWorks Programme, Black Dog Publishing, 2006

‘Let There Be Light’, Surface Tension Supplement 1, Errant Bodies, 2006

‘Interview with Sarah Baker’, Journal of Museum Dhondt-Dhanens, Ghent, 2005

‘Daddy’s Little Girl’, O Zhang, ITM Gallery, London, 2005

‘Nothing Doing’, Nothingness, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, 2004 

‘EmotIcon’, catalogue essay for Art in Sacred Places, October 2004

‘Jo Mitchell’, catalogue essay for EAST International, Norwich Gallery of Art and Design, 2004

‘A World Without Dimensions’, Peter Garfield, Dartmouth College, 2003

‘Generative Cities’ (co-author), Absolute Generations, Venice Biennale, 2003

‘Domestic Crisis: Feminist Artists in South London, 1974 – 1995’, Surface Tension: The Problematics of Site, Errant Bodies, 2003

‘The City as Plinth: Public Art in London in the New Millennium’, Eyeing London, Lawrence & Wishart, 2003

‘Catherine Elwes’, Lux on Line, 2003

‘Dan Graham interviewed by Kathy Battista and Mark Morris’, Arcade, Lawrence & Wishart, 2002

‘Shit Happens: Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document at the ICA’, Room 5: The Journal of the London Consortium, 2000

Articles—Refereed

‘New Feminist Positions: Disrupting a White Feminist Canon’, Third Text, 2016

‘Art and Architecture: A Place Between’, book review, Design History Journal, 2009

‘Exploring An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty: a treasure hunt around King’s Cross, London’, (co-author), Cultural Geographies, Volume 12, October 2005

‘Art and the Metrosexual: CAN 05’, Art and Architecture Journal, No 63, October 2005

‘Herzog and de Meuron’, Art and Architecture Journal, no 62, June 2005

‘Tina Keane: Electronic Shadows’, book review, Third Text, Winter 2004/5

‘William Pope.L’, Third Text, Autumn 2004

‘Mary Kelly’s Mea Culpa’, Third Text, Autumn 2001

’13 questions/14 directors’, M’ARS (the journal of the Museum of Modern Art Slovenia), Autumn 2001

‘The Art of Shopping’, Public Art Journal, October 1999

Editorial Work

Editor in Chief, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press, 2015 – present

Editorial Board member, Art & Architecture Journal, 2005 – 2008

Books Editor, Contemporary, London, 2002 – 2005

Editor, Traditional Urbanism, The Prince’s Foundation for Architecture, 2003

Founding member of editorial board, Room 5: The Journal of the London Consortium

PhD, The London Consortium (Architectural Association School of Architecture, Tate Modern, Birkbeck College, The Institute of Contemporary Arts), 2005 

Dissertation: Women’s Work: Feminist Artists in 1970s London

MA, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 1995

Area of Study: Post-war and contemporary British Art

BA, magna cum laude, Fordham College, Fordham University, NY, 1992

Double major: History of Art & English Literature

Choice Book Award for Renegotiating the Body, 2014

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Research, Global Futures in Art and Design, Winchester, School of Art, University of Southampton, 2010 – 2014

London Consortium Research Fellowship, 2001-2003 (renewed 2004)

Overseas Research Scholarship, CVCP, tuition fees 1998-2001

Hugh Gaitskell Fund Travel Grant, 2001

British Federation of Women Graduate Students, research stipend 1999-2000

Stimuleringsfonds fur Arkitectuur, research stipend for publication,1997

Nederlandse Spoorenwegen, travel stipend for research leading to publication, 1997

Royal Dutch Embassy in London, travel stipend leading to publication, 1997

Ensemble Member, New School of the Anthropocene, London

Founding Member, Ballon Rouge Curatorial Collective

Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association

College Art Association 

NADA: New Art Dealers Association

The London Consortium Steering Committee 2001 – 2007

Guggenheim rebranding curatorial advisory committee, 2022

ArtSpace Benefit Committee, 2017 – 2019

Friends of Kayany Benefit Auction for Syrian Refugee Children, March 2018

Fountain House Benefit Committee, 2017 – 2018

Watermill Benefit Committee, 2015 – 2016

Carriage Trade Benefit Committee, 2013

NJ MoCA Advisory Committee, 2010 – 2012

Independent Curators International Benefit Committee 2009 – 2011