Guy Robertson
Curator and Director

Guy Robertson is a curator and writer based between London and Spoleto, Italy, where in 2015 he was Founding Director of the Mahler & LeWitt Studios – a program of residencies, exhibitions, performances, publications and events based around the former studios of Anna Mahler and Sol LeWitt, as well as the Torre Bonomo.

Selected curatorial projects: Questions of Travel (Tate Liverpool, forthcoming, group show), Luis Alberto Rodriguez: Studies in the costume archive of the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi (Ex-Battistero Manna d’Oro, Spoleto, 2024), An Incomplete A to Z for Art and Poetry (Burlington St Gallery, London, 2022, group show), Tai Shani: The Neon Hieroglyph (Festival di Spoleto, 2021), Luka Savić: General Philosophy and the Confession of an Individual Man (SKUC, Ljubljana, 2020), Howard Hodgkin and Martin Creed: Inside Out (Kistefos, Norway, 2019), Sol LeWitt and David Tremlett: Keeping Time – including Gavin Bryars, James Cave, Adam Gibbons, Babatunde Doherty, Lina Hermsdorf, Hiba Ismail, Jason Moran, Lydia Ourahmane and Keef Winter (Cappella del Barolo, Piedmont, 2019).

Robertson also works as an art historian and is currently writing a catalogue raisonné for the Howard Hodgkin Legacy Trust on the artist’s prints and works on paper (Art Publishing Inc. and Fort Worth Museum, forthcoming).

He ran an acclaimed project space in Peckham, London, called Son Gallery (2010-2013), was curator of the Anna Mahler Association (2011-2014), and was founder and curator of the artist’s book fair, Copeland Book Market (2012-2015) which had its home on Bold Tendencies, London. He has collaborated with, among others, Allison Katz, Cecile B Evans, James Capper, Jeremy Deller, Lonnie Holley, Julie Born Schwartz, Tom Lovelace, Yuri Pattison. As a guest lecturer, on curating and contemporary art, he has worked at the University of Edinburgh, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Leeds University.

He has written widely on art, mostly for exhibition catalogues but also for Brooklyn Rail and Art Licks. He is on the Advisory Board of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture and is consultant Director of Publications for Mahler Foundation.