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Charles Merewether
Charles Merewether, born in Edinburgh, received his BA (literature) and Ph.D. in art history at the University of Sydney. He taught European modernism at University of Sydney (1981–84), Universidad Iberoeramericana, Mexico City (1986–88) and Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona. He received a research fellowship from Yale University (1991); was inaugural curator for the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico (1991–94); curator at the Research Institute, Getty Center, Los Angles (1994–2003); and taught at the University of Southern California. He was artistic director of the Sydney Biennale (2004–06); deputy director of the Cultural District, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi (2007); director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (2010–13); and visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014) and Baptist University, Hong Kong (2015). He was curator of Contemporary Art, National Art Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia (2016–18). His books include: In the Sphere of the Soviets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), State of Play (National Museum of Georgia, 2017), After Memory: The Art of Milenko Prvacki (Relay Books, 2013) and Under Construction: Ai Weiwei (UNSW Press, 2008). He was co-editor, with John Potts, of After the Event (Manchester University Press, 2010) and editor of both Art, Anti-art, Non-art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970 (The Getty Research Institute, 2007) and The Archive (MIT Press, 2006).