Elena Ochoa Foster

Elena Ochoa, Lady Foster of Thames Bank (born 1958) is a publisher and an art curator, and formerly a professor of psychopathology.

Career

For more than twenty years, Ochoa held the position of Professor of Psychopathology at the Complutense University of Madrid, and until 2001 was Honorary Professor at King’s College, London. In the course of her academic career, she has been Hispanic/North American Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and, as Visiting Professor, conducted research at numerous universities in Europe as well as in he United States, among them Cambridge, Chicago, Cracow, Hamburg and Pennsylvania. She has worked at Spanish public broadcasters TVE[1] and Radio Nacional, and has been a regular contributor to various newspapers.

In 1996, Foster founded Ivorypress [2] as a publishing house specialising in artists' books. The project currently encompasses a wide range of areas and activities within the frame of contemporary art,[3] which includes its own art gallery and bookshop, art consultancy and art exhibitions curatorship, editorial services, audio-visual productions and education.[4]

She directs the C Photo Project,[5] conceived to promote photography and contemporary art through publications, exhibitions and academic and institutional support (Ivorypress has organised the creation of the Humanitas Chair of Contemporary Art at the University of Oxford, among other sponsorships at different academic institutions). Along with the team at Ivorypress, she has curated international exhibitions, such as C on Cities (10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2006), NY C (Phillips de Pury, New York, 2007), Blood on Paper (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2008) and Real Venice (54th Venice Biennale, 2011 and Somerset House, London, 2011).[6][7]

In 2008, Ivorypress Space [5][8][9] opened in Madrid[10] as a gallery with a focus on national and international contemporary artists, architecture and photography.

Lady Foster is member of the Board of Directors of the Mutual Art Trust and the Pictet Photography Prize. She was President of the Tate International Council and member of the Governing Board of the Tate Foundation between 2004 and 2008, as well as Trustee of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation. She serves as patron of diverse museums, foundations and international schools of contemporary art and photography.

Personal life

She is married to the English architect, Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank.

She lives and works between Switzerland and the US and works in different countries in Europe, US and Asia.

Artists' Books

Curatorial Projects

Exhibitions

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

Publications

Exhibition Catalogues

C Photo Project

LiberArs

Architecture

Essential

Oxford Lectures

Special Editions

References

  1. ↑ Pendlebury, Richard (24 June 1996). "How Our Most Avant-Garde Architect Fell under the Spell of a Sex Guru; the Most Talked about Match since England V Spain at Wembley". Daily Mail  – via Questia (subscription required) . Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Love for print. Monocle Sep. 2012
  3. ↑ Kunstsammler als Weltenbauer. Elena Ochoa Foster über die Ursprünge des Sammelns. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 07/06/2009
  4. ↑ Retail Directory 2009. Wallpaper. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sudjic, Deyan (8 January 2006). "'I don't feel I'm selling ... I'm sharing'". The Observer. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  6. ↑ Using Venice to Save Venice. Art In America 04/11/2011. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  7. ↑ That old sinking feeling. Financial Times
  8. ↑ Elena Ochoa Foster: Ivorypress no es una galería aunque comisione, organice o produzca exposiciones (source in Spanish). Arteinformado 25/10/2010
  9. ↑ Heathcote, Edwin (1 October 2011). "Masters of precision". Apollo  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  10. ↑ Putting Spain on the Page. Monocle May 2013

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