Tamar Garb

Who is Tamar Garb?

Tamar Garb is Durning Lawrence Professor in the Department of History of Art at University College London. A researcher of French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Garb has published numerous catalogue essays and books that address feminism and the body, sexuality and gender, in cultural representations. Garb has also written essays about numerous contemporary artists, such as Christian Boltanski, Mona Hatoum, Nancy Spero, and Massimo Vital. Garb has also organized several art exhibitions, including Reisemalheurs at the Freud Museum in London in 2007, and Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2011. More recently, she has been researching and publishing on the history of art and photography in post-apartheid South Africa, including curating exhibitions on this subject. Garb's exhibition Figures and Fictions was nominated for a Lucie award in Curating.