Juan Cruz

juan.cruz@ed.ac.uk

爱丁堡大学爱丁堡艺术学院院长

简介

Professor Juan Cruz (Palencia, Spain 1970) is an artist and educator who has worked at a broad range of institutions, both specialist and generalist and with varying missions and profiles.

He  studied   Painting and History and Theory of  Modern Art at Chelsea  College of   Art, graduating in 1993, having spent time at the  Hochschule der Künste in   Berlin on an Erasmus exchange.  Following his  studies Juan worked as an independent artist and writer,  gallery hand, and bookseller until 2000   when he took his first permanent teaching role at Goldsmiths.

Juan’s own work has had broad dissemination, being exhibited at Matt’s  Gallery, London;   Camden Arts Centre, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam;  Serralves Foundation, Porto; Galeria Elba Benitez,  Madrid; the  Edinburgh International   Festival; the Melbourne Festival and  MUSAC,  Spain. In 1999 Juan was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for  Artists and in 2000 named Artist   Fellow at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge. Between 1995 and 1998 he was a regular contributor to the  London-based magazine Art Monthly and has continued to write on the work of other artists throughout his career.

Juan is a   director of the IAAC(International Awards for Art Criticism), and a trustee of the John Moores  Liverpool  Exhibition   Trust, which governs the John Moores Painting  Prizes in  Liverpool and   Shanghai, both projects established to develop greater cultural understanding and exchange. He has been a  trustee of the  Liverpool Biennale, a member of the Tate Liverpool  Council, and a member of the  Nine Elms   Development Board. Juan is a  member of AICA and a fellow of the Royal College of Art.