Mills College Art Lecture Series: Shoair Mavlian

Shoair Mavlian: "Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art"

February 21, 2018

7:00 PM, Danforth Lecture Hall

Shoair Mavlian is the new Director of Photoworks, UK and will take up the post in February 2018. She was formerly assistant curator, photography at Tate Modern, London (2011-2018). She curated the major exhibitions ‘Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art’ (Tate Modern 2018), 'The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection' (Tate Modern, 2016), 'Conflict, Time, Photography' (Tate Modern, 2014), 'Project Space: A Chronicle of Interventions' (Tate Modern and TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica, 2014) and 'Harry Callahan' (Tate Modern 2013). Shoair has a background in fine art photography practice and the history of photography focusing on the twentieth century. She has a strong interest in photography relating to conflict and memory, Central and Latin American photography and emerging contemporary practice. Her independent writing is regularly published in magazines and recent publications include 'The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection’.