Anne Barlow
Function
Conceive and execute the curatorial programme of collection displays and exhibitions at Tate St Ives and to represent the gallery externally and internally
Biography
Anne Barlow is Director of Tate St Ives, Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018. Anne was formerly Director of Art in General, New York, and held curatorial roles at the New Museum, New York and Glasgow Museums, Scotland. Across these roles, she has led on the development of institutional and programmatic strategies, overseen collection displays, new commissions and artist residencies, developed international collaborations with museums and non-profit art spaces, and created new programmes relating to museum redevelopment and capital projects.
Anne has curated exhibitions with artists including Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Outi Pieski, Petrit Halijaj, Thảo Nguyên Phan, Haegue Yang, Otobong Nkanga, Huguette Caland, Adelita Husni-Bey, Basim Magdy, and Jill Magid, and initiated award-winning programmes including Museum as Hub (New Museum) and the What Now? symposia (Art in General). She was Curator of the 5th Bucharest Biennale, Co-Curator of the Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, and Curator of the Samdani Art Award at the 2023 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh. In 2025, she participated in the Experimenter Curators' Hub in Kolkata, India.
Anne has published and lectured widely and has acted in an advisory capacity to organisations including: the Rockefeller Foundation, New York; Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, D.C.; and New York State Council on the Arts. She has participated in selection panels and juries nationally and internationally, including: MAC International 2018, Belfast; Exposure 8, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; the Artists of Tomorrow Award (2016, 2020-22), Pristina, Kosovo; the British Pavilion Selection Committee, 58th Venice Biennale; The Arts Foundation Futures Awards for Visual Arts (2022); the 2023 Ars Fennica Award, Helsinki and the 10th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3, Ljubljana (2024).