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This autumn, the Context Gallery is launching an annual International Curatorial Residency Program. This ambitious and innovative project consists of a series of field trips over a six-month period and an exhibition to be developed during the following year. Therefore, it offers an opportunity for an experienced, dynamic curator to research contemporary art produced in Northern Ireland and the North West of Ireland, as well as to establish a network within the local contemporary art scene.

Miguel Amado

The Context Gallery is proud to announce that Miguel Amado, a curator and critic based in Lisbon and New York, is the first recipient of its International Curatorial Residency Program. The selection committee was highly impressed with the quality of his curatorial practice and writing and is very excited about the potential that his input could realise in the framework of the Context Gallery’s mission.

Miguel Amado is a graduate of the MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London. He has worked with Portuguese institutions such as the Museu Colecção Berardo, Fundação PLMJ, Centro de Artes Visuais, Museu da Cidade and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. In New York, he was Curatorial Fellow at Rhizome at the New Museum and Curator-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program. He is a regular contributor to Artforum magazine and different catalogues and books.

His first visit is scheduled from the 5th to the 11th of September 2010




For more information about the programme or to inquire about studio visits, please phone the gallery at (028) 713 73538 or email info@contextgallery.co.uk