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Kathleen Soriano
British independent arts curator, writer and television broadcaster From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kathleen Soriano (born 18 July 1963) is a British independent arts curator, writer and television broadcaster.
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Background
Kathleen Soriano was born in 1963 in London to parents Salvador Soriano and Kathleen O'Neill.[1] She is of Spanish heritage.[2] Soriano studied at the University of Leicester from 1982 until 1985 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts Honours in History of Art and English. In 1995 she married Peter Greenhough.[1]
Career
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Her first major role in the arts was with the Royal Academy of Arts where she worked until 1989.[3] In 1989 she joined the National Portrait Gallery, London as its Head of Exhibitions and Collections.[3] She remained with the Gallery until 2006.[3]
In 2004, Soriano became a Clore Fellow at the Clore Leadership Programme during its inaugural year. The Clore Fellowship is a programme that aims to develop cultural leaders.[4] She carried out her secondment at the South Bank Centre with Michael Lynch and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.[4][5]
In February 2006, she left the National Portrait Gallery and became the director at Compton Verney in Warwickshire.[5] In 2007, Soriano became one of three judges who selected 238 works from 1600 entries from across the West Midlands for the Birmingham Open Art Exhibition.[6]
In late 2008, she was appointed the new director of exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, replacing the retiring Sir Norman Rosenthal who had held the post for 31 years.[7] This was a new position replacing the former Exhibitions Secretary post.[8] She took up the role in January 2009. During her time at the Royal Academy of Arts she developed exhibitions such as Bronze, David Hockney, Van Gogh, and Degas.[3] In 2013, she curated the exhibition Australia at the Royal Academy.[9] It featured both Aboriginal heritage and Australian art covering 200 years.[9] She left the Royal Academy in 2014 and was replaced by Tim Marlow.[10]
In 2013, Soriano joined the television show Sky Arts Artist of the Year as one of the three expert judges.[11] She is continuing in this the role in the 2023 series, alongside Kate Bryan and Tai-Shan Schierenberg.[12]
From April 2014, Soriano began working independently as an art curator and on other cultural projects.[3] She was one of five judges of the Place Prize for Choreography in 2008 when Adam Linder won the main prize.[13]
In October 2016, Soriano was appointed as the chair of the board of trustees for the Liverpool Biennial, replacing Paula Ridley.[14]
During January 2018, she curated the London Art Fair's 30th Anniversary - Art of the Nation: Five Artists Choose.[15] In early 2019, she curated an exhibition of the works of Harald Sohlberg for the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the first exhibition of his works in the UK.[16]
Soriano was appointed chair of the Art UK charity in December 2022, replacing Charles Gregson.[17]
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Publications
- Liz Rideal and Kathleen Soriano (16 April 2018). Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women
- Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Kathleen Soriano, and Kate Bryan (6 November 2014). Portrait Artist of the Year: A Little Book of Portraits
- Richard Davey, Kathleen Soriano, Christian Weikop (29 September 2014). Anselm Kiefer
- Wally Caruana, Franchesca Cubillo, Anna Gray, Deborah Hart, Thomas Keneally, Ron Radford, Kathleen Soriano and Daniel Thomas (4 February 2014). Australia
- Kathleen Soriano, Emmanuel Cooper and Xavier Salomon (30 April 2010). Compton Verney
Filmography
Films
- Mirrors to Windows: The Artist as Woman (2015)
Television
- Portrait Artist of the Year (2013)
- Landscape Artist of the Year (2015)
- Landscape Artist of the Year (2016)
- Portrait Artist of the Year (2016)
- Landscape Artist of the Year (2017)
- Portrait Artist of the Year (2017)
- Portrait Artist of the Year (2018)
- Portrait Artist of the Year (2019)
- Portrait Artist of the Year (2020)
References
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