Ealing, England, United Kingdom
Mid-career artist with professional standing in related fields of academia and research, specifically of the work of non-Western artists. Projects at Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE with Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi. SAF collaboration with /seconds at Sharjah, 2014. Special edition /seconds / exhibition. (Previously co-curated Sharjah Biennial 6 with Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi). /seconds at SAF nominated finalist for best curated exhibition, Global Fine Art Awards, Miami. Sharjah Biennial In 2003, the Biennial saw a marked shift in direction as Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi took on the role of co-curator with artist and curator Peter Lewis. With two artists at the helm, the focus turned more directly towards the art and the individual artists themselves, thereby establishing what has proven to be an enduring theme in the Biennial’s future manifestations. He is Elected Board Member: Operational and Curatorial Research in Contemporary Art, Design, Science & Technology, London, OCR Dir. Lanfranco Aceti, MIT Leonardo Electronic Press
Publication Minimalism and the thinking of an Outside, Rasheed Araeen – Abstract works, installations, structural propositions Commissioned by Rasheed Araeen To be Published by /seconds, 2026 [designed by blurb.com]
Work -in-progress 2024-2026 The Divine Comedy, Dante – an epigenetic series of 100 large-scale architectural drawings based on the poem’s structures, to be shown as an installation and publication tbc 100 Black Frames, installation in an apartment, forming a grid set over the shelving of a library of books, inviting responses from artists The Signifier Added, at High Wycombe Church – curatorial community project, co-curated with Derek Ogbourne Archival project [ongoing] - sequencing and cataloguing notebooks, works on paper, photographs and curatorial documents and artworks 1970- 2025
Operational and Curatorial Research in Contemporary Art, Design, Science and Technology (OCR) is a research center that focuses on research in the fine arts. Its projects are characterized by elements of interdisciplinarity and transdiciplinarity. OCR engages with public and private institutions worldwide in order to foster innovation and best practices through collaborations and synergies. OCR has two international outlets: the Media Exhibition Platform (MEP), a platform for peer reviewed exhibitions, and Contemporary Art and Culture (CAC), a peer-reviewed publishing platform for academic texts, artists’ books and catalogs. Lanfranco Aceti is the founder and director of OCR, MEP and CAC, and has worked in the field for over twenty years.
Executive Editor, research into contemporary practices in art, publishing visual and literary material online. The journal has examined key issues in theory and exposed new developments in practice since 2004. Originally set up at Leeds Metropolitan University as the evidence of the research fellowship awarded to Peter Lewis and recognised as an important contribution to the university research activity of the school of art and design by RAE. slashseconds performed as an aid to students in their contextual studies, as a good model for curatorial practice and guideline to determine and assemble personal research methodologies. slashseconds continues to interrogate the conditions for research and practice.