Greater London, England, United Kingdom
I am an independent art critic, writer, consultant & curator based in London. Co-founder of ArtSchool Palestine, co-founder of the Contemporary Art Award and council member of the Abbey Awards in Painting at the British School at Rome, Trustee of the Shelagh Cluett Trust, and President of the International Association of Art Critics AICA UK. I was Chair of the Board of New Contemporaries and selection process from 1996 until December 2021. My commitment to contemporary art encompasses curating, organizing, promotion, setting up structures, education, critical writing, and creating new networks designed to bring artists and audiences together. After completing a degree in fine art painting at Central St Martins, and a post-graduate painting degree at Chelsea School of Art, I began writing art criticism for The Guardian newspaper in 1988. Later I was also a regular art columnist for The Times. In this capacity, I reviewed exhibitions of many up and coming Young British Artists and was the only journalist to review the pre-YBA exhibition: Freeze, which featured early work by artists such as Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, and Mat Collishaw. In 1996 I became Chair of Bloomberg New Contemporaries, a role which I held until December 2021. I have judged art prizes, including the Turner Prize in 1999 and the John Moores Painting Prize in 2008. In 2005, I co-founded ArtSchool Palestine (ASP) with Charles Asprey and Samar Martha to promote and support Palestinian artists. ASP has held many events and exhibitions, including “As If by Magic,” to which the British artist Damien Hirst lent his support. My curatorial practice is informed by the current political situation, my ongoing interest in national and international new works, and my research into the public, private, educational, and institutional aspects of British Art in 1988, just before the advent of the internet. I was the co-founder of Bloomberg Space and its curator from 2002-11. More recently, my curatorial contribution includes Turner Prize Hull 2017, ‘Strike Site’ at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham 2018, the SPECTRUM Art Award at Saatchi Gallery 2018, and Creekside Open and Exeter Open, 2019. Upcoming curatorial projects include: 2025-2026 International Guest Curator, PLATAFORMA, Mexico, and 2025 David Garner at The Turner House Gallery, Penarth. Selected critical writing includes essays on Alison Wilding, Laura Ford, Mark Boulos, Angus Fairhurst, Richard Billingham, Jose Dávila, Chantal Joffe, Mustafa Hulusi, Heri Dono, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosa Lee, Young In, and Alberto Savinio.
PLATAFORMA: INTERNATIONAL GUEST CURATOR 2025-2026 Plataforma, Guadalajara Exhibition #1: 22nd June - 14th September 2025 Exhibition #2: 26th October 2025 -14th January 2026 Exhibition #3: 29th January - 17th May 2026 Exhibition #4: 21st June - 13th September 2026 Plataforma Arte Contemporáneo is dedicated to promoting contemporary art in Mexico, with a focus on artists from Mexican states within the Pacific Coast, particularly from Jalisco. Established in February 2024, Plataforma serves as a nexus for artistic convergence, forging national and international connections with esteemed guests and collaborating closely with Cerámica Suro’s local production program. As an art centre, our mission is to facilitate dialogues among established and emerging artists and international guest curators, enriching these exchanges through interactions with our diverse visiting audiences.
2020 Spectrum Magazine, introduction by Sacha Craddock. 2019 Burlington Contemporary, review New Order: Art, Product, Image, 1976–95 by Sacha Craddock. 2019 PICPUS #21, PICPUS press, article Sacha Craddock on Alberto Savinio, summer 2019. 2013 Artasiapacific, Issue 85 Sep / Oct 2013, article London, Points of Departure. Unique Identifier Worldcat: 7831559665 2011 Art Review: Issue 47, article Review Europe. 2008 Bidoun Magazine: Arts and Culture from the Middle East, Glory, Winter 2008, article Riwaq Bienniale. 2008 Art: Review, Issue 20, March 2008, article Mike Nelson by Sacha Craddock. 2008 Artasiapacific, Issue 61: 15th Anniversary Special Issue, article Cultural Checkpoint. 2005 Bidoun Magazine: Arts and Culture from the Middle East, Hair, Winter 2005, article Hashem El Madani, Mediterranean. 2004 Contemporary Magazine, Issue 64, article Goshka Macuga. OCLC: 717193014 2004 Contemporary, Issue 69, article Embedded: Sacha Craddock on Politics in Art. OCLC: 717196468 2004 Contemporary 21, No 67, article Thomas Struth. OCLC: 717195825 2003 Art Price, Vol. 002, article World Review England. 2001 Art:Review, March 2001, article Review- Sacha Craddock on the Cream of contemporary international art. Unique Identifier Worldcat: 96665794 2001 British Museum Magazine, No 41, Autumn/ Winter 2001, article Art as a Museum….Museum as Art. 2000 Untitled, Contemporary Art Magazine, No 21, Spring, article In and Out of the Sun: Sacha Craddock on Francis Alÿs. 2000 Art:Review, Issue 34, October 2000, article Views - Who Are Prizes Really For? Unique Identifier Worldcat: 96075856
Selected magazine articles include "Sacha Craddock: New Order: Art, Product Image, 1976–95" for Burlington Contemporary magazine, 2019; "Sacha Craddock on Alberto Savinio" for PICPUS #21, PICPUS press, 2018; "London, Points of Departure" for Artasiapacific, Issue 85 Sep / Oct 2013; "Review Europe" for Art Review: Issue 47, 2011; "Mike Nelson" for Art: Review, Issue 20, March 2008; "Cultural Checkpoint" for Artasiapacific, Issue 61: 15th Anniversary Special Issue 2008; "Goshka Macuga" for Contemporary Magazine, Issue 64, 2004; "Embedded: Sacha Craddock on Politics in Art" for Contemporary, Issue 69, 2004; "Thomas Struth" for Contemporary 21, No 67, 2004; "World Review England" for Art Price, Vol. 002, 2003; "David Cotterrell" for Beck's Futures 2002; "Art as a Museum…Museum as Art" for The British Museum Magazine, No 41, Autumn/ Winter 2001; Untitled, "In and Out of the Sun: Sacha Craddock on Francis Alÿs" for Contemporary Art Magazine, No 21, Spring 2000; "More Questions Than Answers" for Public Art Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1999; "Review Piece: Sacha Craddock has the last word on Sensation" for Creative Camara Magazine, Issue 349, 1997; "Art Review, Sigmar Polke at Tate Gallery Liverpool" for Art+Text, 1995. 1999 Public Art Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, March, article More Questions Than Answers. 1999 Japanese Landscape, Untitled Magazine, London. 1998- 00 Londonart.co.uk, editor. 1997 Creative Camera Magazine, Issue 349, article Review Piece: Sacha Craddock has the last word on Sensation. 1995 Art + Text Magazine, No 51, article Review on Sigmar Polke. 1994 Sacha Craddock, "In and Out of Focus", Women's Art, London, No.61, Nov/Dec 1994, p.22 1993 Boils on the bottom: what makes bad girls bad asks Sacha Craddock. The Women's Art Library: Women's Art Magazine (Issue 55), November-December 1993.
2021 ‘13 (A Robin Red Breast In A Cage, Puts All Heaven In A Rage)’, text 13 (Kiki Wang) by Sacha Craddock, AM/PM. Accessed August 21, 2021. 2021 Adam Henein Abdulrahman Alsoliman: The Art Library Discovering Arab Artists. [S.l.]: RIZZOLI, 2021. Essay by Sacha Craddock. This pioneering series of slipcases provides the first comprehensive panorama of Arab visual arts, with a special focus on the Saudi art scene. ISBN: 8891832197 2021 Henry Ward: ‘Baffle’, text by Sacha Craddock, Aleph Contemporary, 1 July to 30 September 2021. “Henry Ward: 'Baffle'.” Artsy. Accessed July 15, 2021. 2021 James Collins, essay Penumbra by Sacha Craddock for exhibition catalogue. Accessed July 15, 2021. 2021 'The Stifled Cry' - Archie Franks - Miroslav Pomichal, text by Sacha Craddock, Aleph Contemporary, 6 April - 30 July 2021. Accessed July 15, 2021. 2020 Aleph Contemporary, essay Sacha Craddock on Christy Burdock, August 2020. Accessed July 15, 2021. 2020 Gideon Rubin: A Stranger's Hand, essay Gideon Rubin for catalogue. ISBN: 9783940824769 2019 William Cobbing: Haptic Loop, Cooke Latham Gallery, text William Cobbing: Haptic Loop for exhibition by Sacha Craddock. 2019 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019. With contributions by Sacha Craddock, Kirsty Ogg and Séamus McCormack, New Contemporaries, London, 2019. ISBN: 9780956613394 2019 Korean Artist Prize, essay Sadang B: Young In Hong for catalogue. ISBN: 9788963032320 2019 Xiao-yang Li, Narrative Projects, exhibition text Cultivated Chaos by Sacha Craddock. 2019 W&K Wienerroither & Kohlbacher, essay Andreas Reiter Raabe for catalogue. ISBN: 9783200061965 2019 Victoria Miro, essay Chantal Joffe for catalogue.
2018 Jose Dávila - Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost, essay Fundamental Concerns for catalogue. ISBN: 9788494666353 2018 Sam Jackson: Chronicles, Charlie Smith London, essay Make Up for catalogue. 2018 Jose Dávila - The Feather & The Elephant, essay Backward and Forward for catalogue. ISBN: 9783775744225 2018 Alice Instone: The Pram in the Hall, essay To-Do List for catalogue. ISBN: 1912591006 2018 Marcus Cope: Moonlighting, essay Something Divergent for catalogue. 2018 Nick Malone, The Disappearance of Makepeace a Tale of Two Lives, essay for catalogue. 2018 Zena Blackwell, Seen Not Heard, foreword for catalogue. 2018 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018: selected by Benedict Drew, Katy Moran and Keith Piper, Chair's introduction for catalogue. ISBN: 9780956613387 2017 Turner Prize 2017: Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Büttner, Lubaina Himid, Rosalind Nashashibi, text for catalogue. ISBN: 9781902039299 2017 Mark Boulos, essay Beau Travail for book. ISBN: 9783775742696 2017 Young In Hong: The Moon's Trick, essay Young In Hong: `Around the Corner’ for catalogue. 2017 Women Artists: A Conversation, essay for catalogue. Published by The Fine Art Society for the exhibition Women Artists: A Conversation. ISBN: 9781907052750 2017 Richard Haley: Lubricants and Literature, essay Bedknobs & Broomsticks for limited edition publication. OCLC: 1041121630 2017 Bloomberg: new contemporaries 2017: Selected by Caroline Achaintre, Elizabeth Price and George Shaw, editor for catalogue. ISBN:9780956613370 2017 Diarmuid Kelley: Akzidenz-Grotesk. Recent Works 2014-2017, essay In Conversation for catalogue. ISBN: 9780957418868 2017 Stuart Croft Foundation, essay Chasing the Tail of Tales for publication. 2016 Bloomberg: new contemporaries 2016, editor for catalogue. ISBN: 9780956613363 2016 Alison Wilding, Arena Redux, essay for catalogue. 2016 Laura Ford, Sculptures and Drawings, essay for catalogue. ISBN: 9783981385823
2015 Benjamin Senior, Breathless, introduction for catalogue. ISBN: 9781910221068 2015 Rob and Nick Carter, Chinese Whispers: The Complete Works 2011-2015, essay Chinese Whispers for catalogue. 2015 Sara Shamma: World Civil War Portraits, essay for catalogue. OCLC: 1223498161 2015 Gillian Wearing, Valencia, Institut Valencià d'art moder, text by Sacha Craddock for catalogue. ISBN: 9788448260514 9788448260521 2014 Colin Booth, Omnia Somnia, essay Between the Scale of Everyday and the Beat of Modernity for catalogue. OCLC: 896606836 2013 Julie Brook: Made Unmade, essay Re-writing the Horizon for catalogue. OCLC: 904323078 2013 Catrin Huber: Fictional Spaces, essay Extended Interior: Huber´s Site Specific Work for catalogue. ISBN: 9781906832094 2013 Juan Carlos Stekelman: New York, London: works on paper from the 1960s & 70s, introduction for catalogue. 2012 Bloomberg: new contemporaries 2012, foreword for catalogue. ISBN: 9780956613325 2012 Bruce Ingram: Arrangements, foreword for catalogue. 2012 Rosa Lee: Paintings, essay for catalogue. 2012 Paul Hamlyn: Here, essay Planet Earth for catalogue. ISBN: 9780957150225 2011 Mustafa Hulusi: the joyous, shining and wonderful age, essay for book. ISBN: 3863350677 2011 Bloomberg: new contemporaries 2011, foreword for catalogue. ISBN: 9780956613318 2011 Edgar Martins: This is Not a House, essay Under Construction for catalogue. ISBN: 9781907893025 2011 Sophy Rickett: To the River, essay River Crossing for catalogue. ISBN: 0907738990 2011 Turner Contemporary: Nothing in the World but Youth, essay In Between Expectation and Experience: Adolescence and Art for book. ISBN: 0955236339 2011 Heri Dono: Madman Butterfly, essay for catalogue. ISBN: 9781906576271 2011 Royal College of Art, Future Works: A Publication of Prospective Artworks, In Conversation for book. ISBN: 9781907342356 2011 Charlottenborg: Spring 2011, essay The Open Exhibition for spring exhibition agenda.
-Venice Agendas 13. Va13: Turner Contemporary Discussion What Is Art?, Chair, (2013) -True Or False: There’s No Such Thing As Sculpture, a curated conversation with Liliane Lijn, Elizabeth Neilson, Ossian Ward, Toby Ziegler and Sacha Craddock as Chair, (2013) -Woman Art/Women Collectors, Phyllida Barlow, Vicky Wright, Laura Ford on the Turner Prize, Sacha Craddock as Chair, Falmouth School of Art, (2013) -What is Art? Phyllida Barlow, Tony Heaton, Alan Kane, Sam Thorne on Drawing, Sacha Craddock as Chair, The Drawing Room, (2013) -The Art of Giving, Conference Tate Britain, Sacha Craddock as Chair, session with Jude Kelly, Julia Peyton-Jones, Vicente Todoli and Iwona Blazwick, (2008) -The Producers: Public debates, Sacha Craddock as Chair, BALTIC Contemporary Art, (2002) -Cornerhouse, Turner Prize Panel Debate. Chair: Sacha Craddock. Panelists: Bob and Roberta Smith, Artist Eddie Berg, Director of FACT, Liverpool Jennifer Higgie, Reviews Editor, Frieze magazine Alex Farquharson, Independent Art Critic and Journalist (2001) -Brighton Photography Biennale, trustee (2001) -Cornerhouse, Bloomberg New Contemporaries: Panel Discussion. Chair: Sacha Craddock. Panelists: Jeremy Millar, Artist and Curator, Selector for New Contemporaries 2000. Gavin Turk, Artist and Selector for New Contemporaries 2000 Lewis Biggs, Director of The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Prof. Roger Wilson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Faculty of Art & Design (2000) -Braziers International Workshop, Sacha Craddock as Chair (1999- 2004) -Soho Family Centre, trustee (1995 -96) -A Context for Curation, advisory board member (1998) -Discussion between Ken Lum and Gillian Wearing, Sacha Craddock as Chair, Camden Arts Centre, (1995) -Fondazione MACC, Sardinia, Chair Member
-The Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarships and Award, The British School at Rome, board member (2010- present) -The Shelagh Cluett Trust, charity trustee (2019- present) -Horasis Global Meeting, The Arts: Protecting Today’s Modernism for the Future, Chaired by Sacha Craddock, participants: Phoebe Boswell, Shiyin Cai, Edwin Chan, David Clarke, and Nadia Samdani (2021) -The Spectrum Art Award, Chair selection panel (2020) -Leeds Art Gallery, Thursday Lunchtime Talk – New Contemporaries with Sophie Mackfall, Jin HanLee and Sacha Craddock (2019) -Royal Academy Talks, Sculpture as social practice: what is sculpture good for? Where language ends: Antony Gormley’s discourse series, Chaired by Sacha Craddock, participants: Alistair Hudson and Mariam Zulfiqar, Royal academy of Arts, (2019)
-Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer in conversation with Sacha Craddock (online), HackelBury Fine Art (2021) -Sacha Craddock and John Peter Askew, 'We', Pushkin House (2020) -Aleph Contemporary, Sacha Craddock: Picks from `The Just´, (2020) -Studio 1.1 Gallery, Between Parts Undone (2020) -Leeds Art Gallery, Thursday Lunchtime Talk – New Contemporaries (2019) -Royal College of Art, International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC) 6. (2019) -Narrative Projects Talks, Xiao-yang Li: Cultivated Chaos (2019) -Royal Academy Talks, The definers of success, (2018) -Royal College of Arts, What's Next? Lecture Series: 'Parties and Palazzos: The Art of Networking' (2018) -The Art Academy Talks, Push the Boat Out, (2018) -Sketch Trips, Sacha Craddock: Turner prize talk, (2018) -Edel Assanti, Dale Lewis: Fat, Sugar, Salt, (2018) -Unit London, A Walk-Through Philip Colbert’s ‘Hunt Paintings’ with Curator Sacha Craddock,(2018) -Freud Museum London, BLACK BOOK: Sacha Craddock in conversation with artist Gideon Rubin. (2018) -Pi Gallery, Strike Site, Curator’s Talk, (2018) -Venice Agendas 17: The Cost of Free Speech: Sacha Craddock in conversation with David Birkin, Bernard G Mills and Vassiliki Tzanakou, (2017) -Venice Agendas 17. A series of ‘one to one talks’ and interviews throughout the 4-hour marathon of non-stop events, (2017) -Sid Motion Gallery, Morgan Wills with Sacha Craddock, Morgan Wills, (2016) -Melanie Manchot in conversation with Sacha Craddock, (2016) -Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, After hours talk: Sacha Craddock, Auckland, (2016) -Frieze Panel, Institute of Ideas, with Goshka Macuga, (2016) - Symposium on abstract painting, Chichester University, UK, (2016) -Workplace: In conversation with Eric Bainbridge, (2015) -Venice Agendas 15: Crossing Boundaries – The Right to Speak, (2015) -Symposium Public Sculpture: From Process to Place, (2015) -Demystifying the Turner Prize – Arts Club, (2015) -Conversation between Gillian Wearing and Sasha Craddock. IVAM Museum, (2015)