Suhanya Raffel

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Suhanya Raffel is an art historian who has been serving as the museum director of the M+ Museum for Visual Culture in Hong Kong. She joined the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in November 2016 as executive director, M+, before being appointed Museum Director, M+, in January 2019. She succeeded Lars Nittve, who led the museum from 2011-2016. [1] [2]

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Career

Raffel was the Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney from 2013 to 2016 during which time she worked on the AGNSW expansion project with the architecture firm SANAA. From 1994-2013, she held senior curatorial positions at Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, such as the Acting Director and Deputy Director of Curatorial. She helped drive the growth of the gallery from a regional museum to a global museum with an outstanding collection of contemporary Asia-Pacific art [3] and led multiple Asia Pacific Triennials of Contemporary Art (2002–2012).

Raffel was helped the production of major exhibitions including Andy Warhol in 2007-08, The China Project in 2009 and 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in 2009-10. Raffel also oversaw the implementation of Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox;  21st Century: Art in the First Decade; both Queensland Art Gallery initiatives; and Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands; a Queensland Art Gallery and Southbank Cultural Precinct partnership; Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever, was a Queensland Art Gallery initiative with the Kusama Studio in Tokyo; Matisse: Drawing Life, co-organised with Art Exhibitions Australia and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado was co-organised with Art Exhibitions Australia and the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, and the forthcoming 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, is a Queensland Art Gallery initiative. [4]

Other activities

In 2019, Raffel served on the jury that selected Samson Young for the first Sigg Prize for contemporary Chinese art. [7] That same year, she was part of the selection committee that chose Brook Andrew as artistic director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. [8]

Recognition

Raffel was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Order des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2020. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Quin, Amy (21 July 2016). "Suhanya Raffel leaves Sydney to run multi-billion-dollar Hong Kong art park M+". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Hong Kong Edition". South China Morning Post. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Hong Kong's M+ museum boss determined to stay the course". South China Morning Post. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "Suhanya Raffel in Conversation | Ocula". ocula.com. 9 March 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  5. ↑ Suhanya Raffel appointed president of CIMAM ArtReview , 24 November 2022.
  6. ↑ Quin, Amy (21 July 2016). "Suhanya Raffel leaves Sydney to run multi-billion-dollar Hong Kong art park M+". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  7. ↑ Julia Michalska (29 March 2019), Shortlist for inaugural Sigg Prize announced  The Art Newspaper .
  8. ↑ Claire Selvin (19 June 2018), Brook Andrew Picked as Artistic Director of the 2020 Biennale of Sydney  ARTnews .
  9. ↑ "Remise des insignes de Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres à Mme Suhanya Raffel". Consulat général de France à Hong Kong et Macao (in French). Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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