Alison M. Gingeras

Alison Gingeras is born in New-York in 1973. She is responsible for the management and conservation of the François Pinault post-war and contemporary art collection and is in charge of developing exhibitions of this collection.
She has been designated by François Pinault co-curator with Francesco Bonami of the inaugural exhibition of the contemporary art center Punta della Dogana and the new exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in June 2009.

In April 2006, she curated Where Are We Going? Selections from the François Pinault Collection, the exhibition that inaugurated the newly renovated spaces of Palazzo Grassi as well as Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the Pinault Collection in May 2007.

From 1999 to 2004, Alison Gingeras was curator for Contemporary Art at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, where she curated several exhibitions, including: Dear Painter, Paint Me: Painting the Figure after Late Picabia (2002); Daniel Buren: Le Musée Qui N’Existait Pas (2002), as well as two public projects with Thomas Hirschhorn—Skulptur Sortier Station (2001) and Le Musée Précaire Albinet (2004)—and two project space shows with Urs Fischer and Kristin Baker (2004). In 2004, she was appointed Adjunct Curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In October 2009, she will co-organize the exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern, London.

In addition to her curatorial activities, Alison Gingeras is also a writer who frequently contributes to Artforum and is a member of the editorial board of the art magazine Tate, Etc. She has authored several artist monographs and exhibition catalogues, including books dedicated to the work of Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger, Thomas Hirschhorn and Glenn Brown.
Her most recent publications include a new monograph on the work of the photographer Guy Bourdin, published by Phaidon and an essay dedicated to John Currin co-published by Rizzoli and Gagosian Gallery.