Dr Claudia Di Tosto
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Claudia Di Tosto is a curator, researcher and lecturer who has worked across a range of institutions both in the UK and overseas. She is currently an Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, where she has recently completed a PhD in History of Art, in collaboration with the Paul Mellon Centre, on the history of the British Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale.
Prior to starting the PhD, Claudia held both curatorial and registrarial roles in a number of art organisations, including: IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland); V&A (London, UK); Vatican Museums – Modern and Contemporary Art Department; and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st-Century Arts (Rome, Italy). Since 2023, she has been working as a freelancer in the Collection Care Department at Tate.
She was the co-convenor of the Doctoral Researchers Network at the Paul Mellon Centre for the academic year 2022/23 and held a position as Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art (2023/2024).
Claudia has co-organised two AHRC-funded symposia: ‘National Identity and Exhibition Histories: from fin-de-siècle world’s fairs to contemporary art biennials’ held online in 2023, and 'Identity Complex: Identity representation within global exhibition-making' held at the Bonington Gallery in Nottingham in 2024. She also convened the research project 'On Art Becoming Public' focused on exploring the role of exhibitions within the production of British art history (2024-2025, Paul Mellon Centre).
Web profiles
Professional memberships
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ICOM Italy - Working Group 'Gender and LGBTQ+ Rights' (Associate Member)
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ICOM UK (Member)
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British Art Network (Member)
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Exhibition Studies
- Biennials Studies
- Modern and Contemporary British Art
- Queer Art and Theory
- Feminist Art and Theory
- Curatorial Practices
- Activist practices within art institutions
- Decolonial Approaches to Art History
- LGBTQ+ History
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Collections Management
- Curating