Emily Pethick

Director of The Showroom, London

Emily Pethick is the director of The Showroom, London (since 2008). She is also on the jury of the 2017 Turner Prize and currently part of the research team for a new institution in Amsterdam led by the Stedelijk Museum and Ammodo (with Eungie Joo and Sophie Goltz). She is currently leading the programme Curating Positions (with Leire Vergara) at the Dutch Art Institute. She was the director of Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, in Utrecht (2005-2008), The Netherlands, and curator at Cubitt, London (2003-2004). Her writing has been included in numerous catalogues, including essays on artists Stephen Willats and Dave Hullfish Bailey, and in magazines such as Artforum, Afterall and frieze. Books she has edited include Wendelien van Oldenborgh’s monograph, Amateur (2016); Cluster: Dialectionary (2013) (with Maria Lind, Binna Choi and Natasa Petresin Bachalez); Circular Facts (2011) with Binna Choi and Mai AbuEIDahab (all Sternberg Press).