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Nigel Prince
Director
Prior to being appointed Director of Artes Mundi, Prince was Executive Director at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver, Canada, (2011-2019), Curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2004-2010), and worked on founding International Project Space (IPS) also in Birmingham (2002-2004). Prince began his career at Tate Liverpool and alongside curatorial work has held several academic and research posts including Course Director at Birmingham City University (1997-2002). His work with contemporary artists is extensive including Olafur Eliasson, Ayşe Erkmen, Ryan Gander, Donald Judd, Liz Magor, Steven Shearer, Shahzia Sikander and Andrea Zittel, amongst many others. His exhibition with Cuban artist Carmen Herrera in 2009 was critically heralded as the “discovery of the decade” by The Guardian/The Observer and The New York Times. As an independent curator, his major group exhibition In the Midst of Things (1999) was critically received as “perhaps the most intriguing and successful example of a site-specific project I’ve seen in Britain” by Alex Farquharson in Frieze magazine. Prince continues to write about contemporary art for a wide range of publications, most recently contributing essays to international monographs on Lucy and Jorge Orta, Channa Horwitz and Julia Dault, and essays in catalogues on Beatriz Santiago Munoz and Mounira Al Solh.
Prince has been part of selection committees for British and Welsh representation at the Venice Biennale, and in North America has been a judge for the Sobey Art Award; the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards; RBC Canadian Painting Award; the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize, Toronto; The Brink Award, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle and in the UK for the Paul Hamlyn Artist’s Awards.
Biography
Prior to being appointed Director of Artes Mundi, Prince was Executive Director at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver, Canada, (2011-2019), Curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2004-2010), and worked on founding International Project Space (IPS) also in Birmingham (2002-2004). Prince began his career at Tate Liverpool and alongside curatorial work has held several academic and research posts including Course Director at Birmingham City University (1997-2002). His work with contemporary artists is extensive including Olafur Eliasson, Ayşe Erkmen, Ryan Gander, Donald Judd, Liz Magor, Steven Shearer, Shahzia Sikander and Andrea Zittel, amongst many others. His exhibition with Cuban artist Carmen Herrera in 2009 was critically heralded as the “discovery of the decade” by The Guardian/The Observer and The New York Times. As an independent curator, his major group exhibition In the Midst of Things (1999) was critically received as “perhaps the most intriguing and successful example of a site-specific project I’ve seen in Britain” by Alex Farquharson in Frieze magazine. Prince continues to write about contemporary art for a wide range of publications, most recently contributing essays to international monographs on Lucy and Jorge Orta, Channa Horwitz and Julia Dault, and essays in catalogues on Beatriz Santiago Munoz and Mounira Al Solh.
Prince has been part of selection committees for British and Welsh representation at the Venice Biennale, and in North America has been a judge for the Sobey Art Award; the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards; RBC Canadian Painting Award; the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize, Toronto; The Brink Award, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle and in the UK for the Paul Hamlyn Artist’s Awards.
