Special Event
ArtDesk Conversation | Anthony McCall: Solid Light
About
Join us for an ArtDesk Conversation with Gregor Muir (Director of Collection, International Art at Tate Modern) and Lauren Buckley (Senior Project Curator, International Partnerships at Tate). Our friends from Tate will share stories about their experience working with Anthony McCall and observations about his practice, as well as offer insight about the pieces exhibited in Anthony McCall: Solid Light.
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Gregor Muir
Having joined Tate in 2016, Gregor Muir is presently the Director of Collection, based at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. From 2011–October 2016, Muir was Executive Director of the ICA, London. Gregor was Director of Hauser & Wirth at its former Piccadilly gallery in London from 2004 to 2011. From 2001 to 2004 he was Kramlich Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Modern. In 1997, Gregor founded the Lux Gallery in Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, dedicated to exhibitions of film and video. He has written extensively on contemporary art and artists, as well as releasing a book documenting the 90s London art scene.
Lauren Buckley
Lauren Buckley is Senior Project Curator within the International Partnerships team at Tate, where she has lead on the international presentation of exhibitions such as Hew Locke: The Procession, David Hockney: Moving Focus, and Pre-Raphaelites: Masterpieces from the Tate Collection, and the 2019 Turner Prize to Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK. She has toured exhibitions in partnership with major institutions in USA, Japan, South Korea, China, New Zealand, Australia, and extensively throughout Europe. Prior to Tate, Lauren worked at the British Council, delivering British Modern and Contemporary exhibitions for tour in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, as well as wider international projects and artist residencies.
