Tom Trevor

Tom Trevor is an independent curator and writer, based in England. He is currently Artistic Director of the 4th Dojima River Biennale in Osaka, Japan, taking place in July 2015. He is also developing a new international art triennial in Denmark for Aarhus 2017, European Capital of Culture, as a partnership between Aarhus University, ARoS Museum and Kunsthal Aarhus. Other projects in development include a new film commission for the Venice Biennale in 2015, and curatorial collaborations with institutions in Austria, China, Japan, Korea and the UK. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (UK) (2014-17), where he was conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (DLitt) in July. Curatorial projects in 2014 include Black Sun at the Devi Art Foundation, in Delhi (co-curated with Shezad Dawood), and Joelle Tuerlinckx’s Wor(l)d(k) in Progress? at Arnolfini, in Bristol (co-curated with Axel Wieder, in collaboration with Wiels, Brussels, and Haus der Kunst, Munich). In 2014, he was also a member of the jury for the Korea Artists Prize at MMCA Seoul, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Gwangju Biennale, an ICF correspondent at the Sharjah Biennial ‘March Meeting’ and a delegate at the World Biennial Forum in Sao Paulo.

From October 2005 to October 2013, Trevor was Director of Arnolfini, the centre for contemporary arts in Bristol, described by Sir Nicholas Serota in 2011, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, as “one of a handful of the most significant contemporary cultural centres in Europe.” He was also Associate Curator of the Art Fund International project (2007-12), working in partnership with Bristol Museum to build a collection of contemporary art from an international perspective. He was previously Director of Spacex (1999-2005), in Exeter, and an independent curator (1994-99) based in London, initiating projects for institutions including the Architectural Association, Camden Arts Centre, the Freud Museum and the Institute of International Visual Arts. Over the past 20 years he has curated more than 100 exhibitions and produced more than 30 publications, placing a particular emphasis upon experimental, interdisciplinary practice and context-led projects.