Dr Isobel Whitelegg
Director of Postgraduate Research
School/Department: Museum Studies, School of
Email: icjw1@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Research
Publications
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Isobel Whitelegg. ‘How to Talk About Biennials That Don’t Exist: Reassembling the Twelfth São Paulo Biennial (1973)’, Tate Papers, no.34, 2022, https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tate-papers/34/biennials-that-dont-exist-reassembling-twelfth-sao-paulo-biennial-1973
Isobel Whitelegg. 'Histories of the Present: Proposições Contemporâneas at the 14th Bienal de São Paulo’ in Paulo Miyada (Ed.) Bienal de São Paulo Desde 1951 , São Paulo: Fundacao Bienal de São Paulo, 2022
Isobel Whitelegg. The Making of Tucumán Arde (1968), 1997-2012, in Natasha Adamou and Michaela Geibelhausen (Eds.), Reconstructing Exhibitions. New York: Routledge, 2022
Isobel Whitelegg.'São Paulo & Other Models: the Biennale in Latin America, 1951-1991' in R. Greele, M. Sullivan (Eds.), Blackwell Reader on Modern and Contemporary Latin American & Latinx Art, London: Blackwell, 2021
Isobel Whitelegg. ‘Everything Was Connected. Kinetic Art and Internationalism at Signals London, 1964-66’ in Jo Applin, Catherine Spencer, Amy Tobin (Eds/), London Art Worlds. Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2018
Isobel Whitelegg. 'The São Paulo Bienal Complex: MAM-BSP-MAC’ in Michelle Greet, Gina McDaniel Tarver (Eds.), Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation. New York: Routledge, 2018
.Supervision
- Blanca Jové Alcalde. Creating a Politically active, Plural and Critical Public Sphere: discursive programmes at contemporary art institutions. AHRC M4C Scholarship. 2021 (completed)
- Laura Dudley, From Re-Construction to Co-Production, the authorship of participatory art exhibitions. AHRC M4C Scholarship. 2018-2022.
- Eloisa Rodrigues, Mapping Brazilian Art in Public Collections Across the UK. AHRC M4C Scholarship. 2018-2022.
- Cher Zou, Locating the Alternative Art Institution in the Chinese Context. International Excellence Scholarship. 2017-2022
- Eleni Ganati, Defining the Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017-2023
- Catalina Imizcoz, Modernity and the Exhibitionary Form. AHRC M4C Scholarship. 2020-2024
- Caroline Fucci, Brazilian Contemporary Art in the Global Biennial Context, AHRC M4C Scholarship. 2022-2026
Teaching
Press and media
Activities
Conferences
Worldviews Latin American Art & the Decolonial Turn. Centre for Visual Cultures University of Cambridge 2021
Sobre Artistas Instituições e Coleções: o Brasil no Campo da Arte Contemporânea. ABRE (Association of Brazilian Studies in Europe) III Congress, 2021
Biennialization & its Counter-narratives. CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, 2020
Escuela de Crítica de Arte IV: instituciones culturales en el contexto latinoamericano. Proyecto Siqueiros: La Tallera. México 2018
A exposição da arte: um debate historiográfica. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas, UNICAMP, Campinas, 2019
Transnational Cities: Tokyo & London. Tate Modern, London, 2017
The School of the South: Lessons in Latin American Art, Studio Voltaire, London 2015
New Worlds: Frontiers Inclusion Utopias, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2015
Media coverage
Philomena Epps, 'Signals Gallery (1964-66): An Auto-Destructive Art History' (exhibition review) Frieze 197 (2018)
Isobel Harbison & Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, 'Double-take: Signals: If You Like I Shall Grow' (exhibition review) Art Agenda July 2018