Gavin Delahunty

Gavin Delahunty is an Irish curator and was the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.[1] Delahunty joined the DMA staff in May 2014 and resigned in November 2017, citing 'allegations of inappropriate behavior'.[2]

Gavin Delahunty
Occupation(s)Former Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art

Education

Delahunty holds a Master of Arts degree in Criticism, Visual Arts Practices from the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin (2004), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art, Print from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland (1999).

Career

Prior to working at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), Delahunty was Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Liverpool , where from 2010, he managed the exhibition program and curated a number of exhibitions. From 2007 through 2010, he served as Curator at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima). He has worked for several important institutions over the course of his career, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Project Arts Centre, and Modern Art Oxford.

Selected exhibitions

Selected acquisitions

Stephen Antonakos, Michael Armitage, Nora Aslan, Robert Barry, Kevin Beasley, Frank Bowling, Nina Canell, Ann Craven, Walter De Maria, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Michelle Grabner, Giorgio Griffa, Jacqueline Humphries, Merlin James, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Sarah Lucas, William McKeown, Julie Mehretu, Jackson Pollock, Alejandro Puente, Lina Puerta, Joan Semmel, Keith Sonnier, Haim Steinbach, Rebecca Warren, and Jonas Wood.

Selected publications
  • Counterpoint: Sculpture, Music, and Walter De Maria's Large Rod Series, Gavin Delahunty, ed., Yale University Press, 2017.
  • Delahunty, Gavin. "Contingent Geometries". Geometries on and off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present. Ed. Allan Schwartzman. Published by The Warehouse, Dallas, 2016.
  • Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, Gavin Delahunty, ed., Tate Publishing, 2015.
  • Delahunty, Gavin. "Memory Recorded and Transferred". Ellsworth Kelly. Phaidon, 2015.
  • Delahunty, Gavin. "Words as Poems, Matter as Sculpture". Carl Andre. Poems. JRP|Ringier, 2014.
  • Delahunty, Gavin. "In a Mirror, Dimly". Microtome: Pádraig Timoney. Mondadori Electa S.p.A., 2014.
  • Delahunty, Gavin. “Carl Andre: Poems”. “Artforum International”, Summer 2013.
  • Charline von Heyl: Now or Else, Gavin Delahunty, ed., Tate Publishing, 2012.
  • Delahunty, Gavin. "Lines which do not exist", Gerhard Richter: Lines which do not exist. The Drawing Center, 2010.
  • Delahunty, Gavin. "Railway Mania." Bonnie Camplin: Railway Mania. Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 2010.

References
  1. "Dallas Museum of Art Appoints Gavin Delahunty as Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art". Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. Douglas, Sarah (18 November 2017). "Curator Gavin Delahunty Resigns from Dallas Museum of Art, Citing 'Allegations Regarding Inappropriate Behavior' [Updated]". artnews.com.
  3. "Rebecca Warren Pas de Deux (Plaza Monument) & The Main Feeling". Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  4. Tuchman, Phyllis (1 December 2015). "Lifting the Veil: In 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,' the Dallas Museum of Art Champions the Master's Black Paintings". ArtNews. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  5. Knight, Christopher (21 December 2015). "Review 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,' in Dallas, is exciting and enlightening". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  6. Cotter, Holland (9 September 2010). "Building an Art of Virtuoso Ambiguity". New York Times. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  7. Applin, Jo (1 March 2009). "Katy Moran". MAP #17. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
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