Tate appoints US-based curator for North American art

Tate has appointed Daisy Desrosiers as its Britton Family Curator at Large, North America. Based in the United States, she will focus on the development of North American art in Tate’s collection through research and acquisitions.

Desrosiers is an interdisciplinary art historian, curator and museum leader. She co-curated the 15th Shanghai Biennale and has worked with artists including Vivian Suter, Joan Jonas, Claudia Alarcón & Silät, Ming Smith, Marie Watt, Christine Sun Kim, Alvaro Barrington, Beverly Buchanan, Nancy Spero, and Naeem Mohaiemen.

Since 2021, Desrosiers has been Director and Chief Curator of The Gund at Kenyon College. She will continue her engagement with the institution following her appointment at Tate. She is a 2023 Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York and serves on the Advisory Committee of Fogo Island Arts and on the Board of Directors of the Art Gallery at University College Cork.

Desrosiers succeeds Christine Y. Kim, Tate’s inaugural Britton Family Curator at Large. The position is supported by the Britton Family Foundation. Desrosiers will work on acquiring North American works for Tate’s collection, developing relationships with artists, scholars and curators in the region, and contributing to exhibitions and projects at Tate’s galleries.

“I’m particularly excited by the opportunity to engage more fully with the layered histories that shape the collection, bringing forward voices and connections that deepen and complicate how art is understood. I’m equally committed to contributing to how North American art can be more expansively perceived within the collection, tracing its multiple histories, entanglements and resonances across contexts.”
Desrosiers said.

Paul Britton, chair of the Tate Americas Foundation added: “Daisy Desrosiers brings distinguished experience to Tate and will be an enormous asset in enriching the collection with works of art from North American artists.”