David Elliott | |
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 Elliott in 2014 | |
| Born | 29 April 1949 England |
| Education | Loughborough Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of Durham |
| Occupation(s) | Art gallery and museum curator |
David Stuart Elliott (born 29 April 1949) is a British art gallery and museum curator and writer on modern and contemporary art. [1] He is also a Contributing Editor of Ran Dian magazine. [2]
He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School. While studying Modern History at the University of Durham, he organised Germany in Ferment: Art and Society in Germany 1900–1933 (1970), a group of art, photography and design exhibitions that also included film and performance programmes. [3] After showing in Durham, this travelled to the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, and the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. He then worked as an Art Assistant at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, before studying History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Elliott worked as a regional art and exhibitions officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain, from 1973 to 1976 after which he served as director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford from 1976 to 1996. Elliott's programme at Oxford included exhibitions of art from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union as well as mainstream western art.
In 1995, he co-curated for the Hayward Gallery, London, a large traveling exhibition entitled Art and Power, exploring the relationship of art with the totalitarian regimes in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. His catalogue essays for this were gathered together and republished in History Today .
He was then Director of the Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) in Stockholm from 1996 to 2001. From 1998 to 2004, he was President of CIMAM (The International Committee of ICOM for Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art). Between 2001 and 2006, Elliott was the first director of Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, a large privately endowed museum devoted to contemporary - particularly Asian - art, architecture and design.
During 2007, he was the first Director of Istanbul Modern. In 2008, Elliott was Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor in the History of Art at the Humboldt University, Berlin and a visiting professor in Curatorship and Museum Studies at the Chinese University in Hong Kong until 2015.
In 2010, he delivered the Toshiba Lecture Series, Rethinking Art after the Age of "Enlightenment", at the British Museum in London.
From 2008 to 2010, he was Artistic Director for the 17th Biennale of Sydney, THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, which took place 12 May–1 August 2010.
From 2011 to 2012, he was Artistic Director of the 1st Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary Art entitled The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art.
From 2013 to 2014, he was Artistic Director of the IV Moscow Biennale of Young Art A TIME FOR DREAMS. From 2015 to 2016, he was Artistic Director of the 56th October Salon in Belgrade entitled The Pleasure of Love.
His exhibition Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between heaven and hell in contemporary Japanese art, opened at Japan Society, New York in March 2011 and was judged by the American Branch of the International Association of Art Critics [AAICA] as 'the best exhibition in a non-profit or public space in 2011'.
Between Heaven & Earth. Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia was shown at Calvert 22, London, from September to November 2011.
From 2010 to 2012, Elliott was advising the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charitable Trust on the artistic development and programming of Tai Kwun, the Central Police Station Heritage site in Hong Kong. From 2010 to 2016, he was Chairman of the Board of the Triangle Arts Trust at Gasworks in London. From 2011 to 2017, he was on the jury of Kulturakademie Tarabya in Istanbul a residence scheme for artists of all kinds initiated by the German government to foster German-Turkish cultural exchange. Since 2010, he has been Chair of Judges of the Sovereign Asian Arts Prize in Hong Kong and Chair of the Advisory Board of MOMENTUM, Berlin. From 2015 to 2019, he was senior curator and vice-director to the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art in Guangzhou. He is currently advising the Troy House Art Foundation in London. Art & Trousers. Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Asian Art, an anthology of his writings, is published in 2021.
David Elliott has conceived and curated a large number of exhibitions including:
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