On 2 March it will take place the conference “Gender, Generation and Geography: discovering a bigger history” by Frances Morris, organised by the Chair for Artistic Studies. 20th/21th Century (IVAM-UV-UPV-UMH).
Frances Morris has played an elemental role in the development of Tate, joining as a curator in 1987, becoming Head of Displays at Tate Modern (2000-2006) and then in Director of the International Art Collection until April 2016, when she was appointed Director of Tate Modern (London).
Morris has worked with the objective or re-imagining the collection of Tate and her work has been a key in the development of its international range, as well as in the representation of female artists.
Frances was responsible for the presentation of the collections of Tate Modern inaugurated in 2000, which transformed radically the way museums present the history of modern art. She has curated reference exhibitions, many of which have been international collaborations on a large scale, including three important retrospectives of female artists, Louise Bourgeois in 2007, Yayoi Kusama in 2012 and Agnes Martin in 2015.
At the beginning of her career, Frances Morris curated Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism in 1993, and in 1995 she worked with Stuart Morgan at the exhibition Rites of Passage. Specialist in European international post-war art, she has authored many publications on this topic and has curated projects with many British and international contemporary artists, such as Miroslaw Balka, Chris Burden, Geneviève Cadieux, Sophie Calle, Mark Dion, Luciano Fabro, Paul McCarthy and Nicholas Pope, among others.
Frances Morris is a graduate in Art History by Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art of London. She is a member of the Governing Board of Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburg, of the Administration Council of CIMAM and of the Consulting Committee of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Oporto.
Time: 19:00h
Place: Assembly Hall
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