David Thorp
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David Thorp 26 March 1947 |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Hammersmith College |
David Thorp (born 26 March 1947) is an independent curator and director. He curated GSK Contemporary at The Royal Academy of Arts and Wide Open Spaces at PS1 MoMA New York, among many others. He was previously Curator of Contemporary Projects at the Henry Moore Foundation and was subsequently director of the South London Gallery, The Showroom and Chisenhale. He has been Associate Director for Artes Mundi, the biannual contemporary art exhibition and prize at the National Museum of Wales, and following the death of Michael Stanley in late September 2012 was appointed Interim Director at Modern Art Oxford. He was a member of the Turner Prize jury in 2004. Since the beginning of 2005 David Thorp has been an independent curator organising and initiating various projects in the UK and abroad. Thorp has held the positions of International Adjunct Curator at PS1 MoMA New York, Associate Curator at Platform China, Beijing, Curator of the Frank Cohen Collection, one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the UK.
Thorp writes extensively on contemporary art and has sat on numerous selection panels for art awards both in the UK and abroad.
Thorp was born and educated in London attending a Foundation course at Camberwell College of Arts. He studied BA at Hammersmith College and completed a Master's degree in Australia. His first major curatorial assignment came in Australia in 1985 when Thorp curated the exhibition programme for the 1986 Adelaide Festival.
When Thorp returned from Australia to the UK he was active in the development of the contemporary art scene in the East End of London as a part of which Thorp established Chisenhale Gallery. In 1986 Thorp became director of Chisenhale Gallery. He curated a programme of exhibitions of emerging artists from the UK and abroad and converted the gallery, which had been a shell when he arrived. Before his appointment Chisenhale was unestablished as an exhibition space and was principally occupied as artists studios. Thorp showed works by Ron Haselden presented the collective show "Ruins of Glamour, Glamour of Ruins"with Art in Ruins, Stewart Home, Ed Baxter, and others. Thorp has always worked with living artists at the forefront of experimental visual culture.
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