KURATOR  curating + research

Zoë Shearman is Founding Director of Relational, since 2001.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Link:

http://www.relational.org.uk/

Zoë Shearman is a contemporary art curator, writer, lecturer and consultant with two decades of experience who has curated over eighty exhibitions and projects. Current and recent projects include Anti-Bodies: Beyond the Body Ideal, a cross regional curatorial programme; Craftivism and Far West Metro, with Arnolfini (Bristol); and Human Cargo with Plymouth Museum, including artists Xu Bing, Cao Fei, Raimi Gbadamoisi, JODI, Melanie Jackson, Michael Lin and Stephanie Syjuco, amongst many others. She co-curated with Spacex (Exeter) the major context-led projects Patterns (2002) and Homeland (2004) including forty six artists such as Tariq Alvi, Oladele Bamgboye, Caroline Bergvall, Rosalind Nashashibi, Grayson Perry and Zineb Sedira. Between 1999 and 2001 she co-directed the contemporary art programme at Spacex, curating exhibitions and ‘off-site’ projects including Angus Fairhurst: This Does not Last More Than One Second, Christine + Irene Hohenbuchler: Homing Projects for Kosova, Sigalit Laudau: Somnambulin, Jayne Parker: Foxfire Eins and Lois Weinberger: Edge of the City. In 1996, she co-curated the multi-site site-specific project The Visible & the Invisible for inIVA (London) including Louise Bourgeois, Tania Bruguera, Yoko Ono, Bruce Nauman, and Doris Salcedo, amongst others. Between 1990 and 1994 she directed the visual arts programme at Riverside Studios (London), curating exhibitions and ‘off-site’ projects including Judith Barry: In Other Words, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Sculptures, Yoko Ono: In Facing, Peter Fend: Beach Party as well as shows by then emerging artists such as Matt Collishaw, Bethan Huws, Jaki Irvine, Tania Kovats and Simon Patterson, and touring the work of Bill Viola to the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon) and Museum of Contemporary Art (Seville). Her other curatorial projects have been presented by Camden Arts Centre, the Freud Museum and Wellcome Trust (London). She regularly contributes to journals, publications and exhibition catalogues, including the 2010 edited book Cargo published by University of Plymouth Press. She has taught on the postgraduate Curatorial Programmes in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London; Dartington College of Arts; and University College Falmouth. As a consultant, she has undertaken a range of strategic research and development work including for the Architectural Association (London) and Arts Council England.