Penelope Curtis was born on 1961 and is a British art historian and curator.
17 Facts About Penelope Curtis
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Penelope Curtis is the author of several monographs on sculpture and has written widely at the invitation of contemporary artists.
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Penelope Curtis's family moved from London in 1967 when her father Adam S G Curtis became Professor of Cell Biology at Glasgow University.
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Penelope Curtis studied Modern History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University from 1979 until 1982.
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In 1988, Penelope Curtis became exhibitions curator at the new Tate Liverpool.
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Penelope Curtis confronted sculpture's links with Fascism in two exhibitions: 'Taking Positions' and 'Scultura Lingua Morta'.
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Penelope Curtis left the Henry Moore Foundation in 2010 to take on the direction of Tate Britain.
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Penelope Curtis has served on the Advisory Committee for the Government Art Collection, the Art Commissions Committee for the Imperial War Museum and the Faculty of the British School at Rome.
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Penelope Curtis recently completed two terms as a member of the Conseil d'Administration of the Rodin Museum in Paris.
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Penelope Curtis is currently on the Advisory Board of the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana and of the Sculpture Journal.
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In March 2015, Penelope Curtis announced that she would leave London's Tate Britain to take up an invitation to create one museum from the amalgamation of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum with the Modern Art Centre.
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Penelope Curtis used her time in Lisbon to appoint a curator of the Middle Eastern Collections and to integrate works from Syria, Jordan and Turkey with works from Western Europe in a new "crossings gallery".
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Penelope Curtis programmed 'The Rise of Islamic Art' to deal with the founder's close interaction with the rise of the oil industry.
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Penelope Curtis noted that even this small new gallery would be a significant change for the museum which was founded in 1969 and changed little thereafter.
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Penelope Curtis noted that with an annual acquisitions budget of 500,000 Euros for the acquisition of new art it would be necessary for the museum to concentrate primarily on Portuguese art and to place it within a wider context.
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Penelope Curtis has a particular interest in inter-war art and architecture and contemporary art, on which she has written widely.
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Penelope Curtis is a regular speaker, delivering the 2015 Paul Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery and Yale and has spoken at the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim and at universities in the UK and abroad.