New Curator of Spotlight
Toby Kamps is the new curator of Spotlight, starting at Frieze Masters 2016
Toby Kamps is the new curator of Spotlight, starting at Frieze Masters 2016
Dedicated to solo presentations of 20th-century artists, Spotlight features positions beyond the Western tradition, surveys of under-recognized artists and rarely seen work by iconic figures of the avant-garde.
Revealing foundational moments in art through pioneering figures from across the world, Spotlight has been a celebrated feature at Frieze Masters since its launch in 2012 and saw its first New York edition in 2015. Kamps follows international curators Adriano Pedrosa (Artistic Director, MASP, São Paulo) who led the section 2012–15 and most recently Clara M Kim. Curator of Spotlight at the upcoming edition of Frieze New York, 4–8 May 2016. Kamps will select and advise galleries for the 2016 edition of Spotlight at Frieze Masters in London, 5–9 October.
As Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, Kamps has organized solo exhibitions by artists including Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Kelly, Vanessa Beecroft, Danny Lyon, Wols (Wolfgang Schulze) and Torolab, a Tijuana design collective. His thematic surveys include ‘Silence’; ‘The Old, Weird America’ (awarded best traveling exhibition nationally by the US sections of the International Association of Art Critics); and, with a curatorial team, ‘Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art’.
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