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Anne Barlow is an experienced curator and arts administrator in the field of international contemporary art. She was formerly Director of Art in General in New York City. In November 2016 she was appointed artistic director of Tate St Ives.
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Career
At Art in General, Barlow oversees its exhibitions program, publications, public programs, and collaborations with local and international organizations. During her tenure, she has curated exhibitions and commissioned major projects from artists including: Donna Huanca (2015)[ii]; Adelita Husni-Bey (2015); Marwa Arsanios (2015)[iii]; Basim Magdy (2014); Sara Greenberger Rafferty (2014); Jill Magid (2013)[iv]; Meriç Algün Ringborg (2013)[v]; Shezad Dawood (2013); Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová (2013); Ohad Meromi (2010), Surasi Kusolwong (2008) and Ana Prvacki (2008). Barlow has also managed and initiated programmatic partnerships with arts organizations in Brisbane, Bucharest, Cairo, Holon, Lisbon, London, Manchester, Riga, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Vilnius. Warsaw, and Zagreb.
In 2014, she launched Art in General’s award-winning annual symposium What Now?[vi] on critical and timely issues in the field, establishing an educational partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York, and overseeing the symposia Collaboration and Collectivity (2014); The Politics of Listening (2015); and Future Identities (2016).
Barlow has curated and contributed to a number of biennial projects including Tactics for the Here and Now[vii], 5th Bucharest Biennale (Curator, 2012)[viii]; North by Northeast, Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (Co-Curator, 2013); 2nd Tbilisi Triennial, Georgia (Guest curated project, 2015) and Shifts and Interruptions[ix] for The Jerusalem Show, presented in framework of second Qalandiya International (Guest film curator, 2014). She has also guest curated programs for Lovely Days, Croatia (2013); Threshold Artspace, Scotland (2007); the Rotterdam Film Festival (2003) and the Borusan Gallery, Istanbul (collaborating curator, 2003) – perhaps this could be more general, e.g. She has also guest curated projects for organizations in Bol, Croatia; Perth, Scotland; Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Istanbul, Turkey. In 2013, she guest curated the Centennial Edition OPEN FORUM program[x] for The Armory Show, New York.
Prior to Art in General, Barlow was Curator of Education and Media Programs at the New Museum, New York (1999-2007) where she led the department’s new media, public programs, and collaborative projects. From 2004-2006, she conceptualized and developed the global network initiative Museum as Hub and its first partnerships in Cairo, Eindhoven, Mexico City, and Seoul[xi]. She also curated numerous museum and on-line exhibitions; initiated and produced the museum’s Digital Culture Programs; spearheaded inter-disciplinary roundtables with leaders in the field; and implemented over a hundred public programs, performances and broadcasts.
Prior to moving to New York in 1999, Barlow acted as Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at Glasgow Museums, overseeing its collection of international contemporary art and design, exhibitions program, artists’ residencies, commissions, and new acquisitions.
Barlow has extensive experience of working on two major building and planning projects: a renovation and re-envisioning of a museum of contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland, and the development of a strategic vision for the New Museum’s education and media programs prior to its opening on the Bowery. At Art in General, she also oversaw the organization’s relocation in 2016.
Barlow has been a jury member of numerous selection panels and awards including: Exposure 8, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon (2016); kim? Contemporary Art Award, Latvia (2016 and 2015); T-HT Award, Zagreb, Croatia (2014); and the Akbank Curatorial Prize, Istanbul, Turkey (2013)[xii], and is a Special Correspondent for the Future Generation Art Prize, Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Barlow has also been a panelist/advisor to funding organizations including: Creative Capital, New York (2005 and 2006); New York State Council on the Arts (2003-2005); and the Rockefeller Foundation (2002 and 2003); and has lectured or moderated talks at organizations including the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015)[xiii]; the Sharjah Art Foundation (2012); IASPIS Stockholm (2011); ARCO Madrid (2009)[xiv]; Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2009); and the IMLS National Leadership Awards (2004).
Publications
Barlow is editor/contributor to a number of publications including:
Barlow has also published in numerous arts magazines and journals such as ArteEast Quarterly, ArtPulse Magazine, The Journal for Curatorial Studies, and Ibraaz.
Education
Barlow holds a Masters in the History of Art from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.