Paul Goodwin

Paul Goodwin is an independent curator, urban theorist and researcher based in London. His curatorial, research and writing projects extend across the interdisciplinary fields of contemporary art and urbanism with a particular focus on African diaspora artists and visual cultures. As a curator at Tate Britain from 2008 to 2012, he directed Tate Britain’s pioneering Cross Cultural Programme, a multi-disciplinary platform dedicated to exploring the impact of globalisation and migration on contemporary art in the UK. Goodwin has also curated and co-curated a number of internationally significant exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include: "Transfigurations: Curatorial and Artistic Research in a Age of Migrations", MACBA Barcelona, 2014, "Ghosts", Hangar, Lisbon 2016, "Chloe Dewe Mathews: In Search of Frankenstein", 2016 (and British Library, London 2018), Verbier 3D Foundation Sculpture Park, Switzerland, "Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time", New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK, 2017. Recent publications include 'Confessions of a Recalcitrant Curator’ In: The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu, 2018 (London: Rutledge); Transfigurations: Curatorial and Artistic Research in an Age of Migrations, 2014 (Co-edited book) (London: Royal College of Art); He is currently Professor of Contemporary Art and Urbanism and Director of TrAIN (Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation) at University of the Arts London.