Frances Morris CBE

Thursday 10 October 2024 at 6pm
Tickets are now available via www.firstsite.uk or 01206 713 700.

We are delighted to announce that Frances Morris CBE will present our Autumn lecture.

Curator, art historian and writer, Frances Morris was Director Tate Modern from 2016-2023. Frances has made many exhibitions and publications, including acclaimed retrospectives of Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, and Agnes Martin, most recently co-curating Hilma Af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life. As Director of Collections, International Art from 2006 to 2016 Frances led the transformation of Tate’s International Collection, strategically broadening and diversifying its international reach and representation, as well as bringing photography, moving image and live art into the institution for the first time through acquisitions, displays and exhibitions.

Frances is currently a Distinguished visiting Professor at Ewha Womens’ University, Seoul, S.Korea, 2024-2026. She is a Fellow of the London Centre for the Humanities, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and has recently been awarded a D. Lit from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Frances is a Trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery and on advisory boards to a number of international museums including Mori Art Museum Tokyo, MNAC Bucuresti and Serralves, Porto.