About
Simon Grant is a curator, writer, editor and art historian who lives in London. His curatorial work includes:
Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (2026 and touring to Royal Academy, 2026 and Guggenheim New York 2027)
Louise Janin: The Echo of the Spirit Through the Rhythms of Life, GPS Gallery, London (2026)
Bona de Mandiargues, Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2025)
Paule Vézelay: Living Lines, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol & Towner, Eastbourne (2025)
A Vanished Wholeness, Modern Art, Paris (2025)
The Moth and the Thunderclap, Modern Art, London (2023)
ZOOOOO! An Exhibition for Children, The Gallery of Everything, London (2022)
Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist as Medium, a Hayward Touring exhibition (2020-2022)
Paul Nash: Sunflower Rises, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles (2018)
Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London (2016)
He is formerly editor of Tate Etc magazine and currently co-editor of Picpus magazine. He has written catalogues texts on many historic, modern and contemporary artists, most recently Odoteres Ricardo de Ozias, Sky Glabush and Anne Rothenstein.
He is the author of Informal Beauty: The Photographs of Paul Nash published by Tate publishing (2016) and In My View: Personal Reflections on Art by Today’ss Leading Artists published by Thames & Hudson (2012).