Dr Victoria Walsh

Victoria Walsh is a curator and active researcher whose projects span from the post-war period to the contemporary with a particular focus on interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, architects and designers; performance art and its documentation; the reconstruction of exhibitions; practices and histories of gallery education and audiences; issues of curating in relation to the digital, hypermodernity and globalization.

She is currently leading on the reconstruction of Richard Hamilton’s 1951 exhibition Growth and Form for the forthcoming Tate Modern / Museo Reina Sofia major retrospective of the artist’s work opening in 2014. She is also co-curating with Claire Zimmerman the research display Brutalist Image 1949-1955, which opens at Tate Britain in October 2014.  In addition, she is Co-investigator of the major Tate research project Art School Educated: Institutional Change and Curriculum Development in the UK since 1960 (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) and a member of Tate’s Research Centre The Art Museum and Its Future. 

Prior to joining the Royal College of Art in 2012, Victoria Walsh was Head of Public Programmes at Tate Britain (2005-11), during which time she led an innovative team of programmers and relaunched Late at Tate Britain as an experimental platform for working with artists, new media practitioners, commissioning performances, sound works, film and dance programmes, and initiating collaborations with London art colleges and artist collectives.