Leigh Markopoulos | |
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Born | Hannover, Germany | September 10, 1968
Died | February 24, 2017 Los Angeles | (aged 48)
Occupation(s) | Curator, professor |
Years active | 1991-2017 |
Known for | Art History and Curatorial studies |
Leigh Markopoulos (1968 – 2017) was an American art critic, curator, and teacher.[1][2] Markopoulos was the chair of the graduate program in curatorial practice at California College of the Arts.[3][4][5] She had curated over 50 exhibitions, including ones at the Serpentine Gallery and the Hayward Gallery.[1][6] Her focus was the art and artworld of the 1960s and 1970s.[7]
Leigh Markopoulos was born in Hannover, Germany, and grew up in Iraq, Australia and the UK.[6][2] Markopoulos received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southampton, in Great Britain.[8]
Starting in 1991, Markopoulos worked as a curator in London, first at the Hayward gallery, and then at the Serpentine gallery.[6] At the Serpentine she worked with artists that included Richard Artschwager, Hans Haacke and Bridget Riley.[6] In 2002 she moved to San Francisco to become the deputy director at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art.[6] From 2005 to 2008 she was the director at the Rena Bransten gallery.[6] In 2008 she began teaching full-time at CCA as chair of the curatorial practice program, in which she had been teaching part-time since 2003.[5] In 2010 she started working with Creative Growth, a center for artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities, where she curated Love is a Stranger (2010).[9]