Stuart Comer

Stuart Comer is Curator of Film at Tate Modern, London, where he has presented work by Charles Atlas, Ashish Avikunthak, Rudy Burckhardt, Vicente Carelli, Amit Dutta, Morgan Fisher, Robert Frank, General Idea, Peter Gidal, Joan Jonas, William E Jones, Pawel Kwiek, David Lamelas, Daria Martin, Deimantas Narkevicius, Pat O'Neill, Ulrike Ottinger, Ewa Partum, Wilhelm Sasnal, Trinh T. Minh-ha, TVDO, Lawrence Weiner, TJ Wilcox, David Wojnarowicz, and Akram Zaatari amongst many others. He has contributed to numerous publications and periodicals, including Artforum, Frieze, Afterall, Parkett and Art Review. Recent freelance curatorial projects include 'An American Family' at CASCO, Utrecht and Kunstverein Munich; ' America's Most Wanted' for The Artists' Cinema at the 2006 Frieze Art Fair, London; and 'Double Lunar Trouble' at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. He has contributed to monographs on artists including Tom Burr, Bik Van Der Pol, and Gillian Wearing, published an interview with Andrea Fraser in After Thought: New Writing on Conceptual Art, contributed to Vitamin Ph, Phaidon's recent survey of contemporary photography, and is editing a forthcoming publication on artists' film and video for Tate. He was a member of the jury for the 2006 BFI Sutherland Trophy at the The Times BFI 50 th London Film Festival, sat on the International Jury for the Oberhausen 52 nd International Short Film Festival 2006, and will be a co-curator of the 2007 Lyon Biennial.