Rebecca Morrill Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Commissioned (*and edited):Great (Women) Sculptors (Oct 24) www.phaidon.com/greatwomensculptorsVitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art (May 24)*Latin America Artists from 1785 to Now (Oct 2023) *Vitamin C+ Collage in Contemporary Art (May 2023)Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs (Omar Kholeif, 2023)*Great (Women) Painters (2022): www.phaidon.com/greatwomenpainters*Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists and the Art World (w/ Sara Bader,… Show more Commissioned (*and edited):Great (Women) Sculptors (Oct 24) www.phaidon.com/greatwomensculptorsVitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art (May 24)*Latin America Artists from 1785 to Now (Oct 2023) *Vitamin C+ Collage in Contemporary Art (May 2023)Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs (Omar Kholeif, 2023)*Great (Women) Painters (2022): www.phaidon.com/greatwomenpainters*Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists and the Art World (w/ Sara Bader, 2022): www.phaidon.com/artifacts *African Artists: From 1882 to Now (2021)*Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing (2021)*Art = Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020)*Great (Women) Artists (introductory essay by Rebecca Morrill) (2019). www.phaidon.com/greatwomenartistsVideo Art: The First Fifty Years (Barbara London) (2020)*Harland Miller: In Shadows I Boogie (2019/2022).*Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art (2019)Destination Art: 500 Artworks Worth the Trip (2018)*Flying Too Close to the Sun (introduction by James Cahill)*Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramics in Contemporary Art*Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers (David Trigg) *Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration (Ellen Mara De Wachter)*Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting Expanded editions of best-selling backlist titles:*The Art Book*Art and Queer Culture*500 Self Portraits*30,000 Years of ArtProject edited the following books:*Open Studio: Do It Yourself Projects by Contemporary artists by Amanda Benchley and Sharon Coplan Hurowitz (2021)*Frieze A-Z of Contemporary Art (w/ Frieze Magazine)*Body of Art (Phaidon Editors)*Ellsworth Kelly (Tricia Paik)*Modern Art in America (William Agee)*Painting Beyond Pollock (Morgan Falconer)*Akademie X: Lessons in Art and Life (Phaidon Editors)*The 21st Century Art Book (Phaidon Editors) Show less

Gateshead

Contemporary Art Society is a UK charity that has existed for over 100 years to encourage an appreciation and understanding of contemporary art by a wide audience, and to donate works by important and new artists to museums and public galleries across the UK. In 2010, I founded a membership programme in the North East of England, and then curated / delivered 10 x seasons of artist and curator talks, studio visits, exhibition tours, private collection visits, art fairs, international… Show more Contemporary Art Society is a UK charity that has existed for over 100 years to encourage an appreciation and understanding of contemporary art by a wide audience, and to donate works by important and new artists to museums and public galleries across the UK. In 2010, I founded a membership programme in the North East of England, and then curated / delivered 10 x seasons of artist and curator talks, studio visits, exhibition tours, private collection visits, art fairs, international trips to Venice and the Netherlands, and various other events that aimed to offer the inside track on contemporary art and art collecting. Show less

North East

AV Festival was a leading international Festival of contemporary art, music and film founded in 2003. A biennial event, the Festival was thematically curated to engage audiences with current ideas across art, society and technology. The Festival commissioned new work, and curated thematic strands of internationally significant existing work. Each edition consisted exhibitions and live events: concerts, film screenings and talks, and took place simultaneously across the North East of England… Show more AV Festival was a leading international Festival of contemporary art, music and film founded in 2003. A biennial event, the Festival was thematically curated to engage audiences with current ideas across art, society and technology. The Festival commissioned new work, and curated thematic strands of internationally significant existing work. Each edition consisted exhibitions and live events: concerts, film screenings and talks, and took place simultaneously across the North East of England. For AV10 and AV12, I worked on exhibitions, events and projects with artists including: Kenneth Anger, artificiel (artist duo); Rhodri Davies, Benedict Drew, Jem Finer, Cyprien Gaillard, John Gerrard, Kenneth Goldsmith, Felix Hess, Alec Finlay, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Hamish Fulton, Torsten Lauschmann, Liliane Lijn, Julien Maire, Kaffe Matthews, Gustav Metzger, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Elizabeth McAlpine, Alan Moore, Stephen O'Malley, On Kawara, Charlemagne Palestine, Lee Patterson, Kate Rich, Ben Rivers, Aura Satz, Semiconductor, Iain Sinclair, Simon Fisher Turner, Susan Stenger, Chris Watson and Jana Winderen. Show less

As Exhibition Curator, I delivered exhibitions including: Indian Highway; Gerhard Richter; Maria Lassnig; Anthony McCall; Damien Hirst's murderme collection; Cao Fei. I worked as Exhibition Organiser for: Elmgreen & Dragset: The Welfare Show; Uncertain States of America; Thomas Demand; Paul Chan; Nick Relph & Oliver Payne; Andreas Slominski and Monika Sosnowska.I also oversaw the editing and production of catalogues accompanying many of these shows, including working with… Show more As Exhibition Curator, I delivered exhibitions including: Indian Highway; Gerhard Richter; Maria Lassnig; Anthony McCall; Damien Hirst's murderme collection; Cao Fei. I worked as Exhibition Organiser for: Elmgreen & Dragset: The Welfare Show; Uncertain States of America; Thomas Demand; Paul Chan; Nick Relph & Oliver Payne; Andreas Slominski and Monika Sosnowska.I also oversaw the editing and production of catalogues accompanying many of these shows, including working with external publishers such as König, Lars Müller and Other Criteria. I was also Project Organiser on three Serpentine Pavilion annual architecture commissions (Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto De Moura; Oláfur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen; Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (Sanaa). Show less

Exhibition organiser: Paul Noble; Tobias Rehberger; Raoul de Keyser; Edge of the Real (group painting show); Franz West, Cristina Iglesias and Rodney Graham. I also worked on the catalogues and production of limited editions.

London, United Kingdom

Working as part of the Press and Marketing team, I also launched and managed the Whitechapel Gallery's first ever website.

History Of Art And Architecture, Modern And Contemporary Art, Women'S Art History, Ba Hons (First Class)

Ma Museology, Art, Distinction