Curators
"UBS Openings: Photography" is a display of over 40 photographic works by influential American and European
artists such as Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, and Thomas Ruff selected and assembled by Frances Morris, Head of Displays at Tate Modern and her assistant curator, Ann Coxon.
About Frances Morris
Frances Morris is Head of Displays at Tate Modern and is responsible for the display of Tate’s permanent collection and associated projects. She is currently overseeing the first major rehang of the collection. She also curates loan exhibitions, most recently `Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris’ 2005 and is currently preparing a major retrospection of Louise Bourgeois for 2007.
Past exhibitions and catalogues include `Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism’ 1993, `Rites of Passage’ 1995, `Between Cinema and a Hard Place’ 2000 and `Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972’, 2001.
In 1997 she was appointed Art Programme Curator for Tate Modern and contributed to the two year programme of pre-opening projects in and around Bankside as well as developing the opening installation of the permanent collection at Tate Modern. Specialising in post-war European and contemporary international art, she has also curated projects with many contemporary artists from Britain and abroad, including Miroslaw Balka, Chris Burden, Genevieve Cadieux, Sophie Calle, Mark Dion, Luciano Fabro and Paul McCarthy.
She is a frequent contributor to publications and conferences on the visual arts, occasional broadcaster and guest-curator. She currently directs the Tate component of the Royal College of Art’s MA in Curating Contemporary Art.
Ms Morris studied Art History at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
About Ann Coxon
Ann Coxon is Assistant Curator: Displays at Tate Modern. Since 2002 she has coordinated the team of curators who work on the display of Tate’s collection and associated projects. She has curated a number of displays, including a series looking at icons from the collection ‘in-focus’, and has worked with artists such as Emma Kay, Rita Donagh, Paul McCarthy, Martin Creed and Cildo Meireles. She also works on loan exhibitions, including most recently Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction 1908-1922, 2006 and Robert Frank: Storylines, 2004.
Ms Coxon is currently collaborating with artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnik on The Wrong Gallery, a long-term intervention into the collection displays at Tate Modern in the form of a miniscule gallery with changing programme of exhibitions.
She has previously curated a number of independent exhibitions including Interweaving Cultures, 2005 at the Jim Thompson House in Bangkok, Democracy!, 2000 at the Royal College of Art and Know What I Mean?, 2000 at the Goethe Institut, London. She has also contributed to a number of publications on contemporary art, including Art Monthly and Untitled magazines.
Ann Coxon has a BA Hons in Fine Art from Leeds University and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London.
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