James Lingwood, born 1959 in Watford, UK,[1] is a curator, producer and writer.[2]

He was Co-Director of Artangel with Michael Morris for 30 years from 1991-2021.[3] [4] Amongst around 150 Artangel projects produced in the UK are Rachel Whiteread - House (1993-94);[5] Gabriel Orozco – Empty Club (1996);[6] Ilya & Emilia Kabakov – The Palace of Projects (1999); Michael Landy – Break Down (2001);[7] Jeremy Deller – The Battle of Orgreave (2001);[8] Francis Alÿs – Seven Walks (2005);[9] Roger Hiorns – Seizure (2008-9);[10] Susan Philipsz – Surround Me (2010),[11] Heiner Goebbels – Stifter’s Dinge (2010 -12); Ryoji Ikeda -spectra (2014); INSIDE: Artist and Writers in Reading Prison (2016),[12] with Anne Carson, Marlene Dumas, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Roni Horn, Doris Salcedo, Gillian Slovo, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeanette Winterson et al); Taryn Simon – An Occupation of Loss (2018); Steve McQueen – Year 3 across London (2019-20); Oscar Murillo – Frequencies (2021);[13] Afterness with Alice Alice Channer, Ilya Kaminsky, Paul Maheke, Emma McNally, Tatiana Trouvé on Orford Ness (2021-22) and Sarah Sze – Metronome (2023).[14]

Major feature film and moving image installations produced by Artangel include Matthew BarneyCremaster 4 (1995),[15] Douglas Gordon – Feature Film (1999), Tony Oursler – The Influence Machine (1999), Steve McQueen – Caribs’ Leap / Western Deep (2002);[16] Clio Barnard – The Arbor (2010), Sejla Kameric & Anri Sala – 1935 Days without Red (2011), Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson – Here for Life (2018) and Elizabeth Price - SLOW DANS (2019).[17] Ongoing Artangel projects outside the UK include Roni Horn – Vatnasafn/Library of Water in Iceland;[18] Mike KelleyMobile Homestead in Detroit, USA,[19] Cristina Iglesias – Tres Aguas in Toledo, Spain[20] and Yto Barrada’s The Mothership in Tangier, Morocco.

Before working at Artangel, Lingwood was a Visual Arts coordinator at Plymouth Art Centre, UK (1983-85) and Curator of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (1986-90).[21] [22] At the ICA, he was responsible for many exhibitions including Colin Self's Colin Self's, (1986), Gerhard Richter – 18 Oktober 1977;[23] Ilya Kabakov, The Untalented Artist and other Characters; The Independent Group – Postwar Britain and the Aesthetic of Plenty; Craigie Horsfield – Photographs,[24] and Une Autre Objectivité (with Jean François Chevrier).

Lingwood has curated numerous exhibitions in museums around the world including surveys of the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Vija Celmins,[25] Douglas Gordon, Susan Hiller, Juan Muñoz, Robert Smithson, Thomas Struth and Thomas Schütte. Recent exhibitions include Richard Hamilton – Serial Obsessions for the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, (2017-18),[26] Luigi Ghirri – The Map and Territory;[27] Photographs from the 1970s for Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Folkwang Museum, Essen, and Jeu de Paume, Paris (2018-20), Luigi Ghirri: Viaggi – Photographs 1970-1991, MASI Lugano, 2024/2025.[28]

Forthcoming exhibitions include; Tatiana Trouvé, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2025 (with Caroline Bourgeois); Vija Celmins, The Impossible Image, Works 1964-2024, Fondation Beyeler, Basel (with Theodora Vischer); Cristina Iglesias, at La Pedrera, Barcelona, 2025.

He is currently a trustee of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (UK),[29] The Holt/ Smithson Foundation (USA)[30] and Fluxus (France/UK). Advisory roles include London Design Festival; Kaldor Art Projects, Sydney, Australia and Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy.

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  1. ^ Who's who 2023 (175th ed.). London: Bloomsbury Yearbooks. 2022. pp. 1454–1455. ISBN 9781472991287.
  2. ^ "'He made the world larger'". The Observer. 2001-09-02. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  3. ^ Lingwood, James; Morris, Michael (2002). Noord, Gerrie van (ed.). Off limits: 40 Artangel projects. Artangel. London: Merrell. ISBN 978-1-85894-187-5.
  4. ^ Simpson, Veronica. "James Lingwood and Michael Morris, former Artangel directors – interview: 'The art world audience was for us the least interesting audience'". www.studiointernational.com. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  5. ^ Whiteread, Rachel; Lingwood, James; Bird, Jon (1995). House. London: Phaidon. ISBN 978-0-7148-3459-7.
  6. ^ Orozco, Gabriel, ed. (1998). Gabriel Orozco - Empty club: Empty Club was the 1996 Artangel/Beck's commission and took place at ... London from June 25 until July 28 1996. London: Artangel. ISBN 978-1-902201-02-3.
  7. ^ Landy, Michael; Noord, Gerrie van; Artangel, eds. (2001). Michael Landy - Break down: published by Artangel to coincide with the presentation of the work in th former C&A store ... London, from 10 February until 24 February 2001. London: Artangel. ISBN 978-1-902201-10-8.
  8. ^ Deller, Jeremy (2002). The English civil war part II: personal accounts of the 1984 - 85 miner's strike. London: Artangel. ISBN 978-1-902201-13-9.
  9. ^ Alÿs, Francis, ed. (2005). Francis Alys̈ - seven walks: London 2004-5; [and The Nightwatch at the National Potrait Gallery, London, 28 September - 20 November 2005]. London: Artangel. ISBN 978-1-902201-18-4.
  10. ^ Hiorns, Roger; Lingwood, James; Artangel, eds. (2008). Roger Hiorns, Seizure: Harper Road, London, 3 September - 2 November 2008. London: Artangel. ISBN 978-1-902201-21-4.
  11. ^ Lingwood, James; Franzen, Brigitte (2014). Susan Philipsz: you are not alone [exhibition, Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 31 October - 3 December 2009]. Köln: König. ISBN 978-3-86335-405-3.
  12. ^ Lingwood, James; Morris, Michael, eds. (2017). Inside: artists and writers in Reading Prison. London: Artangel. ISBN 978-1-902201-31-3.
  13. ^ "Frequencies". www.artangel.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  14. ^ Armitstead, Claire (2023-05-14). "Artist Sarah Sze: 'We've created a system that can destroy us. That's new'". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  15. ^ Barney, Matthew; Strietmann, Peter; O'Brien, Michael James (1995). Cremaster 4. Paris London Frankfurt-am-Main: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Artangel W. König [etc.] ISBN 978-2-86925-051-2.
  16. ^ Hin, Barbara; McQueen, Steve; Enwezor, Okwui; McQueen, Steve; Artangel; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, eds. (2002). Steve McQueen: Caribs Leap - Western Deep ; [Documenta XI June 9 - Septembre 15, 2002 ; Artangel at the Lumiere, London, October 4 - November 10, 2002 ; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto January 25 - April 13, 2003...] London: Artangel. ISBN 978-972-739-106-6.
  17. ^ Cumming, Laura (2020-09-13). "Elizabeth Price: Slow Dans; Tavares Strachan: In Plain Sight – review". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  18. ^ Horn, Roni; Lingwood, James (2009). Vatnasafn - Library of water ; Stykkishólmur, Iceland. Göttingen: Steidl. ISBN 978-3-86521-942-8.
  19. ^ Miller, M. H. (2017-03-08). "Mike Kelley's Underground Afterlife". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  20. ^ Iglesias, Cristina; Colomina, Beatriz (2015). Cristina Iglesias: tres aguas. Toledo] : [Madrid: Artangel ; Turner. ISBN 978-84-16354-74-0.
  21. ^ "The pioneers who took art out of the white cube". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  22. ^ O'Mahony, John (2011-03-21). "Artangel: Frontline warriors". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  23. ^ Richter, Gerhard (1989). Gerhard Richter : 18. Oktober 1977. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts : in association with Anthony d'Offay Gallery. ISBN 9780905263724.
  24. ^ Horsfield, Craigie; Institute of Contemporary Arts; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Etienne; Kunsthalle Zürich; Irish Museum of Modern Art, eds. (1991). Craigie Horsfield: 24.10.-1.12.91 ; [Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam: 18.1.-1.3.91; Musée d'Art Moderne de St. Etienne: 12.3.-18.5.92; Kunsthalle Zürich 22.8.-17.10.92; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin: 14.11.92-Jan.93]. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts. ISBN 978-0-905263-48-9.
  25. ^ Celmins, Vija; Lingwood, James (1996). Vija Celmins. Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England). London: Institute of Contemporary Arts. ISBN 978-1-900300-04-9.
  26. ^ Ku, Helen (2017). Richard Hamilton : serial obsessions. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul. p. 12. ISBN 9788963031729.
  27. ^ Ghirri, Luigi; Lingwood, James (2018). Luigi Ghirri: the map and the territory. London: MACK. ISBN 978-1-912339-08-2. OCLC 1008776175.
  28. ^ Luigi Ghirri; Viaggi (1st ed.). MACK. 2024. ISBN 978-1915743619.
  29. ^ "Trustees". Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  30. ^ "Staff & Board | Holt/Smithson Foundation". holtsmithsonfoundation.org. Retrieved 2024-07-31.