David Elliott

David Elliott is a curator, lecturer, publisher, editor, and writer focusing on non-Western modern and contemporary art from Russia, Japan, China, Latin America, and Africa. He studied history at the University of Durham and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He has served as Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1976–96), Director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1996–01), founding Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2001–06), first Director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (2007), and Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor of the History of Art, Humboldt University, Berlin (2008). He has written extensively on the role of modern art museums today and was President of the International Committee of ICOM for Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art from 1998 to 2004. Currently he is Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, which will take place in 2010, and is working on exhibitions of contemporary Japanese and East Mediterranean art

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