Adam Carr
Adam Carr (b. 1981, Chester, UK) is a Curator, Writer and Educator. Since 2004 he has curated over 70 exhibitions worldwide and over 150 texts and essays he has authored have been published by major museums, galleries and publications. He is Reader in Curating and Contemporary Art at at Liverpool John Moores University. He is also currently a guest lecturer for School for Curatorial Studies, Venice, Italy and the online plaftorm Collecteurs Academy who are based in New York.
Carr has curated exhibitions for Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; ICA, London; e-flux, New York; MOSTYN I Wales; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Depart Foundation, Los Angeles; Artissima, Turin; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis and Arezzo City Arts Festival. In addition, he has served as a guest curator for Francesca Minini, Milan; Yvon Lambert, Paris; Artissima, Turin; T293, Naples; Meessen de Clerq, Brussels; Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf; Johann Konig, Berlin; Frutta, Rome; josegarcia, mx, Mexico City; Norma Mangione, Turin; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, among many others.
He currently holds a number of guest curatorial positions worldwide. In 2021 he curated ‘Other People Place’ a solo exhibition of the work of Ryan Gander OBE, which opened at Nuno Centeno, Porto and is part of a series of solo exhibitions of the artist curated by Carr taking place in various venues globally. He is currently curating the second in the series which will take place in Rome in 2025. He is also currently curating a number of group exhibitions to take place worldwide between 2025-26, among them a large group exhibition of artists focusing on language, text and typography to take place in Mexico City in 2025. In 2022 he founded new contemporary arts visual space and exhibition programme titled ‘Further Down the Line’ which is based in Liverpool – the first exhibition opened in May 2023 and he is presently working on the programme for 2025 and 2026.