Ingrid Swenson is a curator and writer with over 30 years of experience working with contemporary artists in a variety of gallery, offsite and unconventional contexts. From 1998 to 2021 she was Director of PEER, the acclaimed east London arts organisation where she curated significant and often landmark projects and exhibitions with over 150 artists including Martin Creed, Mike Nelson, Siobhán Hapaska, Fiona Banner, Danh Vō, Emma Hart, Jonathan Baldock, Jadé Fadojutimi, Samson Kambalu and Lubna Chowdhary. Prior to PEER she worked at a number of arts institutions in London, including ICA, Serpentine, Contemporary Art Society and Whitechapel Art Gallery. In 2022 she curated Stephen Cripps – In Real Life for Turner Contemporary, Margate. Recent books are the children’s book Masterpieces in Pieces, a young person’s guide to taking great art apart (Hachette 2022), and Shopping Lists, a consuming fascination (Cheerio 2023), which have both received wide critical acclaim.

The Response Series generates collaborations between experts, researchers, and artists not only across disciplines but also across methodologies and approaches to research and practice, with a view to creating new experiences and forms of knowledge.

Image: Siobhán Hapaska, a wolf, an olive tree and circumstances, 2014. Image courtesy of the artist and Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery.