RALPH RUGOFF, curriculum vitae
2006–present Director, Hayward Gallery, London
2000-06 Director, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
CURATING (a selection)
2016 The Infinite Mix, group exhibition of contemporary video installations. Hayward Gallery exhibition presented at The Store, 180 Strand, London.
2015 XIII Biennale de Lyon: La Vie Moderne
Carsten Holler: Decision. Survey show at the Hayward Gallery.
2014 The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery. Group exhibition exploring contemporary sculpture related to the human figure.
2013 The Alternative Guide to the Universe, Hayward gallery. Group exhibition featuring ‘outsiders’ including artists, scientists, urbanists, architects and technologists who envision alternative scenarios.
2012 Invisible: Art about the Unseen, 1957-2012, Hayward Gallery. Featuring 26 artists including Yves Klein, Yoko Ono, Robert Barry, Chris Burden.
Wide Open School, presented at Hayward Gallery. Over 100 artists from 40 different countries devised and led public experiments in learning.
Jeremy Deller: Joy In People, Hayward Gallery. Retrospective touring to Wiels Centre, Brussels; ICA, Philadelphia; St Louis Contemporary Art Museum
2011 George Condo: Mental States. Retrospective presented at New Museum, New York; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; Hayward Gallery, London; and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt.
Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want (co-curator), Hayward Gallery
2010 The New Décor, group exhibition featuring 33 international sculptors. Presented at Hayward Gallery, and toured to The Garage, Moscow.
2009 Ed Ruscha:50 Years of Painting. Presented at Hayward Gallery, and toured to Haus der Kunst, Munich; Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
2008 Psycho Buildings, group exhibition at Hayward Gallery featuring 10 artists who explore how built spaces function as social, psychological, and perceptual environments.
2007 The Painting of Modern Life, group show exploring the history of how photographic source materials have been used by artists since the 1960s, from Warhol and Richter to Tuymans and Dumas. Presented at the Hayward Gallery, London, and Castello di Rivoli, Turin.
Co-curator, Antony Gormley: Blind Light, Hayward Gallery
2006 Shoot the Family, an international survey of works in which conceptual and post-conceptual artists portray their own domestic partners and families. Presented at CCA Wattis Institute and toured to Cranbrook Museum of Art, Knoxville Museum of Art.
2005 Thomas Hirschhorn, UTOPIA, UTOPIA = ONE WORLD, ONE WAR, ONE ARMY, ONE DRESS. Exhibition co-curated with Nicholas Baume. Presented at Boston ICA and CCA Wattis Institute.
Monuments for the USA, featuring proposals by over 63 international artists. Shown at CCA Wattis Institute and toured to White Columns, NY.
Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, 1995-2005. CCA Wattis Institute and touring to Bronx Museum of Art; Miami Art Central.
2003 Co-curator/publication editor, Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art. First major museum survey of North America’s west coast. Presented at Seattle Art Museum, the San Diego MCA, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the CCA Wattis Institute
2000 The Greenhouse Effect, co-curator. Presented at Serpentine Gallery and the Natural History Museum, London. .
1997 Scene of the Crime, a survey exhibition tracing the development of a “forensic aesthetic” from the 1960s to the present. Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
PUBLICATIONS & CRITICISM
In addition to writing catalog essays for all of the above exhibitions, I have contributed principal essays to books and catalogs on artists such as David Hammons, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Luc Tuymans, Andreas Gursky, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Raymond Pettibon, and Jason Rhoades and have contributed essays on curating and cultural criticism to a number of anthologies.
From 1985-2002, I wrote art and cultural criticism for numerous periodicals, publishing widely in art magazines as well as newspapers, including Artforum, Artpresse, FlashArt, frieze, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The LA Weekly, Parkett, and Grand Street. In 1996, Circus Americanus, a collection of my essays, was published by Verso.
AWARDS, ADVISORY POSITIONS, BOARD & COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
2016 ‘Illuminated River’ Jury member, Rothschild Foundation 2013 Tate Gallery Turner Prize Selection Committee 2012 Advisory Board, Kiev Biennale 2009-15 Chair of London Visual Arts Strategy Group 2010 British Council Selection Committee for Venice Biennale Pavilion 2008-10 Steering committee member for Art Fund International, a £5 million initiative to assist regional UK galleries in acquiring international art Jury member, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Arts Prize 2005-08 Board of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2006-08 Founding Director, Curatorial Studies Program, CCA, San Francisco 2005 Awarded $100,000 Penny McCall Foundation prize for curating and criticism. Curatorial adviser to the 2005 Turin Triennial 2002 Curatorial Adviser to 2002 Sydney Biennale
EDUCATION
1980 B.A. in Semiotics, Brown University, Rhode Island