About

Judith Carlton is Director of Southwark Park Galleries, London. Carlton was assistant director at non-profit Matt’s Gallery, London, and was previously gallery manager at Cubitt Gallery and Studios, London. She has also held positions at the Serpentine Galleries, London, and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle.  A publicly funded organisation, CGP London was founded in the 1984 by the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, and now encompasses the modernist exhibition space Café Gallery and Dilston Grove, a poured-concrete church converted into an exhibition space, both located in Southwark Park, Bermondsey.

Maria H. Loh is a Professor in the School of Historical Study at Institute for Advance Study in Princeton, USA. She holds a BA in History from McGill University (1993), a Certificat des Études from the École Régionale des Beaux Arts in Rennes (1995), a Licence in Art History from the Université de Rennes II (1996), and her MA/PhD in Art History from University of Toronto (2003). She was a predoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute (2000-2002), the Joanna Randall-MacIver Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College Oxford (2003-2004), the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2007-2009), the Willis F. Doney Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2012-2013), Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti / Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2018), and a NEH Public Scholar (2021-2022). Prior to joining CUNY, she taught in the Department of History of Art at University College London for over a decade. She is the author of three books—Titian Remade. Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art (Getty Research Institute, 2007); Still Lives. Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master (Princeton, 2015); and Titian’s Touch. Art, Magic, & Philosophy (Reaktion, 2019)—and the editor of two special issues of the Oxford Art Journal—Early Modern Horror (Oxford, 2011) and Mal’occhio: Looking Awry at the Renaissance (co-edited with Patricia Rubin, Oxford, 2009). She is a regular contributor to Art in America and has also written on: portraiture and loss; “special affect” in early modern painting and sculpture; melancholia and the Renaissance in Ottocento Italy; remakes in Chinese cinema; repetition in Hitchcock’s Vertigo; and the work of Sherrie Levine. Her fourth book Liquid Sky will explore visual representations of the early modern sky. She lives and works in New York and London.

Maitreyi Maheshwari is Head of Programme at FACT, Liverpool where she is responsible for overseeing their programme of exhibitions, residencies and events. Previous to this Maitreyi was Programme Director at Zabludowicz Collection in London.  Maitreyi has also previously worked on the interaction programme at Artangel and the youth programme at Tate Modern.