Zoe Shearman

Zoë Shearman is a curator and writer with a focus on contemporary art, social practice, re-visting cultural and social histories, and de-colonisation. She is currently a Curator with the National Trust. Artists’ site-specific/performative projects curated/co-curated include: Louise Bourgeois, Tania Bruguera, Yoko Ono, Christine + Irene Hohenbucher, Melanie Jackson, Donald Rodney, Doris Salcedo, Zineb Sedira. Curated multi-site projects include: Craftivism and Far West Metro (Arnolfini and off-site), Lois Weinberger (Camden Arts Centre and Freud Museum), The Visible and the Invisible (Institute of International Visual Arts at Friends House, St Pancras Church, University College London and the Wellcome Collection), Patterns (Spacex, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies University of Exeter, Exeter Mosque, Exeter Cathedral), Human Cargo: Excavating the Contemporary Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Plymouth and Devon (Plymouth Museum and off-site in partnership with National Portrait Gallery), Art for Life (interventions in the Wellcome Collection Science for Life exhibition), Homeland (Spacex, Royal Albert Memorial Museum Exeter, various shops and outdoor sites), Anti-Bodies: beyond the body ideal, participative commissions for outdoor sites and online platforms and outdoor sites in three cities as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. She has edited solo exhibition publications on artists including Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono and Jayne Parker and her writings on artists including Sonia Boyce, Suzanne Lacy, Bettina Semmer and Rosemary Trockel have been published by Art Monthly, Art Gallery Magazine, China, Engage Journal and Green Box Berlin. Previously, she was founder Director/Curator of projects agency Relational, Artistic Co-Director of Spacex Gallery, Exeter and Director of Visual Arts of Riverside Studios, London. She has taught on a number of postgraduate Curatorial Programmes and has undertaken curatorial consultancy work for organisations including Arts Council England, the Architectural Association, and University of Exeter. She holds a degree in the History of Art from University of the Arts, London and a postgraduate teaching certificate.