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Flavia Frigeri

Dr Flavia Frigeri is an art historian, lecturer, and ‘Chanel Curator for the Collection’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London where she is leading a project set to redress the gender imbalance in the collection through acquisitions and site-specific commissions. She recently guest curated the group exhibition Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970 at Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK and is now working on All Our Todays a survey of international contemporary art at MARe, Bucharest, Romania and a retrospective of avant-garde French-Portuguese artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy. From 2016 to 2020 she was a Teaching Fellow in the History of Art Department UCL and a member of faculty at Sotheby’s Institute, London. Previously she was ‘Curator, International Art’ 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). She is the author of Pop Art and Women Artists both in Thames & Hudson’s Art Essentials series and the co-editor of a volume of collected essays, New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms (Routledge, 2021). She is a trustee for the AAH - Association for Art History.

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