Eleanor Nairne

Eleanor Nairne is the senior curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London. Internationally, she has curated shows such as Erotic Abstraction: Eva Hesse / Hannah Wilke (2021) at the Acquavella Galleries in New York. She was previously curator of the Artangel Collection at Tate, organizing more than 30 exhibitions and displays across the UK. A regular catalogue contributor for institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, she has written essays and reviews for the Art Newspaper, Frieze, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times, among others. She is also a trustee for Hart Club, an organization devoted to neurodivergent artists.