Professor Dawn Ades FBA

Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex, a Fellow of the British Academy since 1996, Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy, a former trustee of Tate and the National Gallery and was awarded a CBE in 2013 for her services to Higher Education. She has curated or co-curated many exhibitions in the UK and internationally over the past forty years, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978); Art in Latin America (1989); the Salvador Dalí centenary at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2004); Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents, (with Simon Baker) Hayward Gallery (2006); The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art, at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2011), and Dalí/Duchamp at the Royal Academy (2017). She was Associate Curator for Manifesta 9 (2012). Apart from the catalogues of these and other exhibitions, publications include Photomontage (1976, revised 1986 and 2022), Marcel Duchamp (with Cox & Hopkins, 1999 and 2022) and Selected Writings on Art and Anti-Art (2015). Research on Dada and Surrealism has shifted increasingly though not exclusively to the women artists and poets associated with these movements, with publications on Hannah Höch, Mina Loy, Maria Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Cecilia Vicuña and Claude Cahun.