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Dr Flavia Frigeri is an art historian and curator. Starting in September 2020, she will join the National Portrait Gallery in the capacity of ‘Curator: Missing Narratives on Women’; leading on a three-year research project with a particular emphasis on female artists and sitters. From 2016 to 2020 she was a Teaching Fellow in the History of Art Department at University College London (UCL). Previously she worked at Tate Modern, where she co-curated The World Goes Pop (2015), and was responsible for: Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (2014), Paul Klee: Making Visible (2013) and Ruins in Reverse (2013). From 2010 to 2011 she was the recipient of the prestigious Hilla Rebay International Fellowship from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
She holds a PhD from UCL, an MA in Art History from University of Chicago and a BA in Art History from John Cabot University, Rome. She has published articles and catalogue essays on a range of subjects including, post-war European art with a focus on Italian art, pop art and exhibition histories. Between 2018 and 2019, she published two books, Pop Art and Women Artists both in Thames & Hudson’s Art Essentials series. She is currently co-editing a volume of collected essays New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms (Routledge, 2021) texts which originated in a symposium held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Copenhagen in 2017.
As an independent curator, her recent curatorial work includes: Carol Rama: Eye of Eyes (Lévy Gorvy, New York, 2019), Boom: Art and Industry in 1960s Italy (Tornabuoni, London, 2018) Invisible Cities (Waddington Custot, London, 2018) and Evolutionary Travels the inaugural show of Fundación Arte in Buenos Aires in 2016. She is currently curating exhibitions on behalf of a range of international museums.