LEWIS BIGGS

Curator, researcher, Distinguished Professor of Public Art at the University of Shanghai, and a Trustee of the Liverpool John Moores Exhibition Trust, the International Award for Art Criticism and the Institute for Public Art, of which he is the Chair.
He was the British Commissioner for the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1986. In 1987, he joined the Tate, and served as Director of the Tate Liverpool (1990 – 2000). In 1998, he became one of the founding trustees of the Liverpool Biennial, and has been Chief Executive of this Biennial from 2000 to 2011; he has been commissioning art for public spaces in a regeneration context since then. He has been curator for the 2013 Aichi Triennale, Nagoya / Japan. In 2014, he curated the 2014 Folkstone Triennial and is curator for the 2017 edition. He will be advisor to the Land Art Mongolia Biennial and chief curator for 2018.