Faculty
Dr Rebecca Breen, Lecturer, University of Essex
Rebecca Breen specializes in contemporary art from Latin America and completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge (2011). Her research focuses on the intersections between conceptualist art practice by women artists and testimonio, or testimonial narrative literature from twentieth-century Latin America. She is currently interested in a testimonial art practice for the present day and for a global context. Rebecca further holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge (2003), for which she wrote a dissertation on the visual work of Frida Kahlo. Rebecca has previously lectured at the University of Limerick, Éire, from which university she also received her primary degree (2002).
Dr Joanne Harwood, Director, ESCALA
Joanne Harwood is Director and Curator of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), at the University of Essex. She has worked with the collection since 1995, first as a Curatorial Advisor and then as Senior Research Officer, taking up the role of Assistant Director in 2006. Her PhD focused on the Codex Mendoza, a sixteenth-century Aztec manuscript held by the Bodleian Library and her research interests in art from Latin America continue to span the pre-Columbian period to the present, with a focus on modern and contemporary art’s engagement with indigenous and popular culture. She has lectured in these areas at the University of Essex and in her current role at ESCALA is responsible for developing, researching and disseminating the collection in partnership with other institutions, including Tate.
Tanya Barson, Curator (International Art), Tate Modern
Tanya Barson has been Curator of International Art at Tate Modern since 2007.
Previously, Tanya was Exhibitions and Collections Curator at Tate Liverpool from 2004 to 2007. She joined Tate in 1997 as an Assistant Curator. From 1997 until 2004 she worked on acquisitions, including major acquisitions of works by Rachel Whiteread, Anish Kapoor and Chris Ofili, she also worked on research and displays of the Tate Collection, including the opening displays of Tate Modern in 2000 and the full-scale re-hang in 2006. In 2001 she co-curated the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain. Since 2002 she has been working as a team with Tate's Associate Curator of Latin American art [Cuauhtémoc Medina 2002-2008, Julieta Gonzalez 2008-2012 and Jose Roca 2012 to now], and with Tate’s Latin American Acquisitions Committee, to make acquisitions of Latin American art for the collection. As a result she has travelled extensively in the region.
Most recently she has curated the major exhibition
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic at Tate Liverpool (29 January-25 April 2010), which toured to the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (16 July to 10 October 2010). Other exhibitions she has curated include:
Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Tate Liverpool (23 April – 23 Oct 2005),
Frida Kahlo, Tate Modern (9 June – 9 Oct 2005),
Inverting the Map: Latin American Art from the Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool (15 October 2005 - 26 March 2006);
Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool (3 February - 23 April 2006),
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People, Tate Liverpool (15 December 2006 - 4 March 2007);
Ellen Gallagher: Coral Cities, Tate Liverpool (21 April – 28 August 2007); and
Oiticica in London, Tate Modern (5 May – 21 October 2007). She also curated a re-hang of the Tate collection, extending throughout the building at Tate Liverpool, which opened in autumn 2007 and was on display until spring 2009 to coincide with Liverpool’s year as the 2008 European Capital of Culture.
Tanya has also written and lectured widely in the UK and abroad. She was co-curator (with Simon Baker) of the exhibition
Inside Out, Photography After Form: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection which will open at CIFO, Miami, in December 2010. She was also curator of
The Peripatetic School: Itinerant Drawing from Latin America which was at the Drawing Room, London in 2011, touring to mima, Middlesbrough in late 2011 and which will open at the Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia in March 2012.
Since January 2010 Tanya has been part of the curatorial team programming the Level 2 Gallery, and responsible for overseeing exhibitions by Michael Rakowitz, Haris Epaminonda and Rosa Barba, as well as a number of collaborative exhibitions with new global partners and incorporating a curatorial residency exchange scheme between Tate and the partner organisations. Currently, she is working on a major monographic exhibition which will open at Tate Modern in 2013.
Anders Petterson, Managing Director, ArtTactic Ltd and Consultant Lecturer, MA Art Business
A leading authority on art market research, with particular focus on the Western and emerging contemporary art markets in India, China, Russia and the Middle-East. Anders is the Founder and Managing Director of ArtTactic Ltd, a London-based art market research and advisory company established in 2001. He previously worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan in London, New York and Frankfurt. He is a frequent art market commentator on Bloomberg TV and CNN.