Dr Mercedes Vicente
Profession
Associate Lecturer
College
Central Saint Martins
Person Type
Teacher
Biography
I am a curator, writer, and researcher and Associate Lecturer on MACCC. I hold an AHRC-funded PhD in Critical Writing from the Royal College of Art and a Master’s in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. I have taught at the Royal College of Art, King’s College London, London College of Communication and London Metropolitan University. I have also held museum positions as Director of Education and Public Programmes (interim) at Whitechapel Gallery, Curator of Contemporary Art at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand, and Research Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum. I have curated over 50 exhibitions at institutions such as Tate Modern, Ikon Gallery, Camera Austria, Apexart, Yale University and CCA Singapore.
My doctoral research, Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), focuses on the late video pioneer known for his socially engaged practice centred on labour, education, and Indigenous activism. My extensive writing has been published in books, exhibition catalogues and art journals such as Afterall, Camera Austria, PARSE, Lapiz, Exit and Concreta. Trained in contemporary art curating and criticism, I contextualise contemporary art within the social and political conditions of our time. Having worked in different contexts (New York, New Zealand and London), I bring an awareness of situated knowledges and cultural difference. My interests lie in artistic practices that engage with emancipatory politics, whether speculative or as interventions in the realm of experience, offering alternative ways of thinking, doing and living.
My doctoral research, Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), focuses on the late video pioneer known for his socially engaged practice centred on labour, education, and Indigenous activism. My extensive writing has been published in books, exhibition catalogues and art journals such as Afterall, Camera Austria, PARSE, Lapiz, Exit and Concreta. Trained in contemporary art curating and criticism, I contextualise contemporary art within the social and political conditions of our time. Having worked in different contexts (New York, New Zealand and London), I bring an awareness of situated knowledges and cultural difference. My interests lie in artistic practices that engage with emancipatory politics, whether speculative or as interventions in the realm of experience, offering alternative ways of thinking, doing and living.