Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project

Guggenheim curator since 2010

Suzanne Cotter joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2010 as Curator, Abu Dhabi Project. Between 2002 and 2009, she served in successive positions at Modern Art Oxford as Senior Curator and Deputy Director, Acting Director, and Curator at Large. Previously, she held curatorial positions at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, where she co-curated Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age with Jeremy Millar; and at the Hayward Gallery, London, where her exhibitions included Force Fields: An Essay on the Kinetic with Guy Brett; Lucio Fontana, with Sarah Whitfield; and Paul Klee: the Nature of Creation, with Bridget Riley and Robert Kudielka. At Oxford, she curated over thirty monographic and thematic exhibitions and was contributing editor of catalogues on international artists including Pawel Althamer, Miroslaw Balka, Monica Bonvicini, Angela Bulloch, Daniel Buren, Cecily Brown, Mircea Cantor, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Trisha Donnelly, Wade Guyton, Gary Hume, Jannis Kounellis, Mike Nelson, Silke Otto-Knapp, Seth Price, Bojan Sarcevic, Hiroshi Sugito, Fiona Tan, and Kelley Walker. In 2006, she curated Out of Beirut, a major survey of contemporary art from Beirut, and its accompanying international symposium in Oxford, Public Time. In 2009, she co-curated the international survey exhibition Transmission Interrupted with Gilane Tawadros. In 2011, she was co-curator of the 10th Sharjah Biennial in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. A contributor to art publications including Frieze, Parkett, and Artforum, she is one of the principle contributors to Defining Contemporary Art. 25 years in 200 Pivotal Artworks, published by Phaidon Press in 2011, and editor of the first monograph on British choreographer Michael Clark published by Violette Editions, also in 2011. She was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2005. She received her MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London; the Diplôme du Premier Cycle from the École du Louvre, Paris; and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Leadership from City University, London.