MIDDLESBROUGH INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART NAMES TWO NEW SENIOR CURATORS

Elinor Morgan, from Birmingham, and Miguel Amado, from Barcelona, have been named senior curators at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in England.

Morgan’s coming from Eastside Projects in Birmingham, where she oversaw the gallery’s artists’ development and public programming. Before that she was program curator for Wysing Arts Center in Cambridge and chair of the Committee at Outpost in Norwich. Amado has curated at organizations including Tate St Ives in Cornwall, the Abrons Art Center in New York, and the Visual Arts Center in Coimbra, Portugal, and he was responsible for curating the Portuguese pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art opened in 2007 to present Middlesbrough’s collections, which focus particularly on drawing, ceramics, and jewelry.