Tom Trevor
Tom Trevor was appointed Director of Arnolfini, Bristol, in 2005. He studied Fine Art at the Ruskin, University of Oxford, and Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. In the early 1990s he worked as an artist based in London, as well as a musician and music producer for television. As an independent curator from 1994-99, he curated context-based projects for the Institute of International Visual Arts, the Wellcome Trust, Camden Arts Centre and the Freud Museum, amongst other places. He was Director of SPACEX, Exeter, from 1999 to 2005.
In 1996 he co-curated the multi-site project, The Visible & the Invisible: re-presenting the body in contemporary art and society, for inIVA, including site-specific installations by Doris Salcedo, Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono, Donald Rodney, Tania Bruguera and Bruce Nauman amongst others.
At SPACEX he curated more than 50 exhibitions and ‘off-site’ projects, including one-person shows by Lois Weinberger, Sigalit Landau, Christine & Irene Hohenbuchler, Jayne Parker, Angus Fairhurst, Oladele Bamgboye, Peter Fend, William Kentridge, Luke Fowler, Shizuka Yokomizo and Mika Taanila. He has placed a particular emphasis upon socially-engaged, context-based work. Multi-site projects include Patterns (2001), with Samta Benyahia and Zineb Sedira, and Homeland (2004), presenting site-specific work by 44 artists in 8 everyday locations, including Tariq Alvi, Michael Curran, Grayson Perry, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Rosalind Nashashibi.
For the Liverpool Biennial, he co-curated Generator (2002), with 20 commissions of ‘self-generating’ art-work including new works by Sol LeWitt and Yoko Ono alongside emerging software artists, and curated Hortus (2004), including projects by Maria Thereza Alves, Jyll Bradley and Stuart Brisley, amongst others.
He has produced a number of publications and CD-ROMs, and contributed texts to catalogues and magazines. He has lectured at Goldsmiths College, the Slade, the Architectural Association, University of Plymouth, Dartington and Falmouth College of Arts. For SPACEX, he developed a practice-based Curating MA with Dartington.
