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Other artists featured include Ed Ruscha (2001), Jim Lambie (2003), Mike Nelson (2004), Jannis Kounellis (2004), Daniel Buren (2006), Gary Hume (2008), Howard Hodgkin (2010), Thomas Houseago (2010), Graham Sutherland (2011), Jenny Saville (2012), Lubaina Himid (2017), Anish Kapoor (2021), Ruth Asawa
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Artists' exhibitions have included Richard Long (1971); Sol Le Witt (1973) Joseph Beuys (1974); Donald Judd (1995); Marina Abramovic (1995, 2022-23); Carl Andre (1997), Lubaina Himid (2017), Ruth Asawa (2022), and Yoko Ono (1997). Since the renaming of the gallery, notable exhibitions have included:
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The gallery presents exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. It has a national and international reputation for quality of exhibitions, projects and commissions, which are supported by a learning and engagement programme with audiences in excess of 100,000 each year. Funded primarily by
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Elliott's programme focused on media that were often ignored by bigger public galleries at the time, such as photography, architecture and graphic design. Under Elliott's directorship, MoMA held photography exhibitions such as the
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commented, "Perhaps the museum bit was only ever there to confuse tourists and convince gowny academic Oxford that modern art was worth taking seriously."
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exhibitions. His contributions also included multiple gallery renovations. He resigned his position in 1996 to become the director of the
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David Thorp assumed interim directorship in October 2012 following the death of Michael Stanley.
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in Stockholm, having served the longest term of any director in the history of the gallery.
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Retrospective in 1992. Elliott introduced up-and-coming artists from Africa, Asia and the
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Paul Hobson was appointed Director in April 2013 and took up the post that September.
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The gallery was founded by architect Trevor Green in 1965. With funding from the
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Woolley, Liz (2010). "Industrial Architecture in Oxford, 1870 to 1914".
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Review of Monica Bonvicini's MOMA Oxford Show by Greg Whitfield
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It was renamed "Modern Art Oxford" in 2002. Adrian Searle of
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and sculptures including a large scale wooden pier, called
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Michael Stanley assumed the directorship in January 2009.
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Several transitory directors oversaw the gallery until
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Elliott's replacement, an American from Los Angeles,
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Photograph of the gallery entrance on Pembroke Street in Oxford
Pembroke Street, Oxford
Pembroke Street, Oxford
Contemporary art gallery
modernartoxford.org.uk
art gallery
Oxford
Arts Council England
Pembroke Street, Oxford
Harry Drinkwater
square room
Arts Council of Great Britain
MoMA in New York
The Guardian
Nicholas Serota
Sandy Nairne
David Elliott
Robert Doisneau
Soviet Union
video art
Moderna Museet
Kerry Brougher
American
European art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Andrew Nairne

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