Maria Nepomuceno: Refloresta!
Co-curated with Apapat Jai-in Glynn. Assisted by Helder Clara, Keiron Finnetty, and Martin King. Thanks to Victoria Miro. Photography by Andrew Brooks.
1 Jul - 22 Nov 2021
Talking Sense: The changing vocabulary of mind and brain
Ahmed Mohammed, Akinyemi Oludele, Alyson Olson, Amelia Phythian, Amy Ellison, Andee Collard, Bethany Costerd…
Supported by the Zochonis Charitable Trust
17 Jan - 14 Apr 2020
Making the News: Reading between the lines, from Peterloo to Meskel Square
Robel Temesgen, Elmi Ali, Polyp, Schlunke & Poole
Supported by Slater Heelis
5 Jul - 23 Sep 2019
BiblioTech: From bookshelf to big data
Dan Hays, Claire Tindale, Jane Lawson
Supported by the Zochonis Charitable Trust
7 Jul - 18 Aug 2018
Beautiful Monsters
Co-curated with Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh
Laura Dekker, Dina Varpahovsky, Donal Moloney, Evgenyi Strelkov, Ed Saye
18 May - 30 Jun 2018
Nicola Dale: The things that look back
With John Rylands Library & the Warburg Institute, UCL. Accompanying event ‘Does Information + Technology = Knowledge?’ produced by Nicola Dale and film ‘Close Readings’ by Matylda Wierietielny & Tina Tschismarov
Supported by Arts Council England
12 Jan - 10 Feb 2018
Sit Down & Get Out: The trouble with 'polite society'
Co-curated with young people from mental health charity 42nd Street and Apapat Jai-in Glynn. Cariad Hughes, Alabama Hall, David Parker-Conway, Georgie Barrett, Seleena Laverne Daye, Amanda Ravetz, Alison Erika Forde, Stephen Walton, Lee Crocker, Charmaine Turner, Gina Warburton, Bob Nutts Jr., Kim Thompson, Rachel Genn, William Hogarth, SmileXStitch and Bel Moody.
1 Dec 2021 - 21 Mar 2022
Fun & Games: Playtime, past & present
Birungi Kawooya, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Gray Wielebinski, Hope Strickland, Polly Tayarachakul, Thu Le
Supported by the Zochonis Charitable Trust
20 Nov 2020 - 14 Jun 2021
Made in Translation
Co-curated with Alice Kettle
Alice Kettle, Stephen Dixon, Louise Adkins, David Penny, Lesley Raven, Berthold Schoene, Helen Mort…
Supported by Manchester School of Art
April 27 Jun 26 2017
Many-Splendoured Thing - Manchester/Rio 2016
Gê Orthof & Raphael Fonseca
Supported by Manchester School of Art, HOME and Plano Cultural
1 Jun - 29 Jun 2016
Helen Wheeler: Build a Wor(l)d with ‘ing’
Site-specific iron filing and plaster sculptural installations and drawings
1 Oct - 30 Oct 2015
Be Strong, Live Happy & Love: 350 Years of Paradise Lost
Kate Shaw, Chloe Manasseh, Ilona Kiss, Helen Mather
6 Jan - 11 Feb 2017
Recollection: Memory & Time
Saima Rasheed, Maggie Hargreaves, Leo Robinson, Alnoor Mitha, Stacey Coughlin
Supported by the Zochonis Charitable Trust
27 Jul - 10 Sept 2017
Brick by Brick: Architectures of potential
Co-curated with Emma Morley. Thu Le Ha, Andy Broadey, Johanna Just, Tianzhou Yang, Sam Coulton, Camille Dunlop, Natalia Da Silva Costa Dale, Qingyuan Zhou, Daniel Elms, Horace Lindezey, Jess Taylor and Darren Gallagher.
8 Oct 2022 to 5 Jun 2023
What it is to be here: Colonisation & resistance
Rene Kulitja, Steve Dixon plus items from Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Manchester Museum. Co-curated with Dr Helen Idle.
24 Apr - 9 Nov 2020
Second Nature: What is 'nature' anyway?
Navid Asghari, Jackie Chettur, Oliver East, Louise Hewitt, Amy Lawrence, Jessica El Mal, Ruth Murray, Joanna Whittle
Supported by the Zochonis Charitable Trust
4 Oct 2019 - 6 Jan 2020
Fancy Pants
Lindsey Mendick, Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Ruby Kirby, Camille Smithwick, House of Ghetto, and items from Manchester Central Library Special Collection
1 Feb - 25 Mar 2019
In So Many Words: Roget's Thesaurus and the power of language
Jez Dolan, Rowland Hill, Jonathan Hitchen
Supported by the Zochonis Charitable Trust
3 Apr - 12 May
Shreepad Joglekar: Non-places of intelligence
Supported by Kansas State University
1 Jul - 30 Jul, 2016
The Four Guardians of the Sky
Ousama Lazkani
8 Feb - 27 Feb 2016