Barnaby Wright

Barnaby Wright is a specialist in late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century art with a particular interest in modern British art. He studied at The Courtauld Institute of Art (BA, MA, Ph.D., 1996-2004) and began his curatorial career in 2005 as Exhibitions Curator at the Hermitage Rooms in Somerset House, London, where he staged a number of exhibitions in collaboration with The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. He became a curator at The Courtauld Gallery in 2007 and has curated and co-curated a series of exhibitions including: Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Nudes (2007-08); Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites 1952-62 (2009-10); Cezanne’s Card Players (2010-11, second venue The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Mondrian-Nicholson: In Parallel (2012);Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901 (2013); and Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude(2014-15). He curated two contemporary shows at the Courtauld: Richard Serra: Drawings for the Courtauld (2013); Jasper Johns: Regrets (2014).

He co-curated Bridget Riley. Learning from Seurat (2015-16), Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings (2015-16), Georgina Houghton: Spirit Drawings (2016), and Soutine's Portraits: Cooks, Waiters & Bellboys (2017-18). 

Barnaby teaches on the MA Curating the Art Museum course and leads the Gallery’s collaboration with the programme.

• Paul Cézanne and his legacy.
• The Nude in early twentieth-century avant-garde art
• Avant-garde art and the professionalization of culture in Britain, c.1900-1914.
• The changing ‘realisms’ of Walter Sickert.
• Post-War/Cold War: Art in Britain, 1945-1965.
• Teaching from art collections.

• HM Government Acceptance in Lieu Panel – panel member
• Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust – trustee