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Dr Claudia Di Tosto

Positions held:
  • Associate Lecturer, School of Historical Studies
  • 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).

    Qualifications

    • PhD in History of Art, University of Warwick, 2025
    • Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Education, University of Rome 'Roma Tre', 2019
    • MA in Museum Studies, University of Leicester University, 2017
    • MA in History of Art, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', 2015
    • BA in Cultural Heritage Studies, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', 2012

    Web profiles

    Professional activities

    Convenor of 'On Art Becoming Public', a research project focused on the role of exhibitions within the production of British art history, which included an online reading group, a conference and a film commission by Juliet Jacques.

    Co-organiser of the AHRC-funded conference 'Identity Complex: Identity representation within global exhibition-making' held at the Bonington Gallery in Nottingham (2024).

    Co-organiser of the AHRC-funded symposium 'National Identity and Exhibition Histories: from fin-de-siècle world’s fairs to contemporary art biennials' held online (2023).

    Professional memberships

  • 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
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Collections Management (ARVC272S7)
    • Curating (ARVC273S7)