Marina Wallace, Professor of Curation and Director of Artakt, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, has a background in classics, fine art, art history and journalism. She curated a number of groundbreaking exhibitions including Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now (Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2007/8); Spectacular Bodies: the Art and Science of the Human Body, from Leonardo to Now (Hayward Gallery, 2000/01); Head On, Art with the Brain in Mind (Science Museum, London, 2002); Mendel, The Genius of Genetics (Mendel Museum, Brno, 2003).
She is the author of a number of publications, including John Hilliard, 1969-1996 (Verlag Das Wunderhorn, 1999); Spectacular Bodies. The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now (Yale University Press, 2000); Head On, Art with the Brain in Mind (2003); Mendel, the Genius of Genetics (2003); Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now (2007); Acts of Seeing, Zidane Press, 2009; La Cultura Italiana, Volume X (UTET, 2010), The Lives of Paintings (2011). Her latest project is a visual interpretation for the public dissemination of scientific knowledge for a EU project, MItoSys (2010-2015), the exhibition, Lens on Life, and the documentary Meetings of Minds, (2012-2015).
See www.artakt.co.uk.
