Gavin Delahunty

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Gavin Delahunty is Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art of Dallas Art Museum (EE.UU.). Previously the Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Liverpool, part of the family of Tate galleries, and previously Curator at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Delahunty is a leading specialist in post-war art with strong experience in expanding contemporary art collections and programs. As Head of Exhibitions and Displays since 2010, Delahunty has managed, implemented and enhanced the exhibition program at Tate Liverpool. During his tenure at Tate Liverpool, he has curated a number of important and acclaimed exhibitions that have toured within Europe, including Alice in Wonderland: Through the Visual Arts, 2011; Charline von Heyl: Now or Else, 2012; and Chagall: Modern Master, 2013. Additional projects included solo exhibitions on the work of Robert Therrien, 2011, and Matt Saunders, 2013, and a distinctive group exhibition exploring experimentation by artists utilizing drawing throughout the 20th century entitled Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change, 2013. His forthcoming exhibition Keywords: Art, Culture & Society in 1980s Britain, in partnership with Iniva, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, is scheduled to open at Tate Liverpool in February 2014. Since 2011, Delahunty has been working on a catalogue raisonné of the poems of Carl Andre. He is published widely, with forthcoming essays on Carl Andre (JPR|Ringier), Padraig Timoney (Electa Mondadori) and Ellsworth Kelly (Phaidon). From 2007 through 2010, as Curator at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima), Delahunty organized such significant exhibitions as British Surrealism & Other Realities, 2008; Katy Moran: Paintings, 2009; Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1954–62, 2010; and A Certain Distance, Endless Light: A Project by Felix Gonzalez-Torres & William McKeown, 2010. His exhibition Gerhard Richter: Lines which do not exist, 2010, which opened at The Drawing Center, New York, showcased the artist’s works on paper for the first time in the United States. After securing a six-figure sum from the Art Fund, Delahunty led the Art Fund International Award in consultation with The Drawing Center, overseeing a significant number of major acquisitions for the mima collection. He has worked for several important institutions over the course of his career, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Project Arts Centre and Modern Art Oxford. Delahunty holds a Master of Arts degree in Visual Arts Practices from the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin (2004), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art and Print from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland (1999). He has served since 2007 as a lecturer in art history at a series of distinguished educational institutions, including the Royal College of Art, The University of York, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, the University of Edinburgh, and, most recently, at the University of Northampton School of the Arts. Delahunty work closely with Gabriel Ritter, the DMA’s Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art.