Professor Tessa Giblin joined Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh as Director in 2016, and has held a Personal Chair in Contemporary Curating with Edinburgh College of Art since 2022. There she has curated major solo exhibitions of El Anatsui, Angelica Mesiti, Celine Condorelli, Emeka Ogboh, Jesse Jones, Samson Young and Lucy Skaer, as well as group exhibitions 'Borderlines - Art in the Age of Brexit', 'At the Gates', 'The Recent' and 'The Normal'. She was Commissioner and Curator for Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2017, and in 2015 she was Guest Curator of the steirischer herbst festival exhibition, Graz, Austria, where she presented the group exhibition ‘Hall of Half-Life‘ over four venues. From 2006 – 2016 she was Curator of Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, where she commissioned and curated within a thriving multidisciplinary arts centre. There she curated numerous solo and group exhibitions, including ‘Riddle of the Burial Grounds‘, 'Blackboxing', 'Exhibitions', 'Every Version Belongs to the Myth', 'Nonknowledge' and 'The Prehistory of the Crisis I & II'. Tessa Giblin now lives in Edinburgh with her family. She was raised in Otautahi / Christchurch, Aotearoa / New Zealand.