Flavia Frigeri

National Portrait Gallery, London
Curator

Flavia Frigeri is an art historian, curator and lecturer who is currently the Chanel Curator for the Collection at the National Portrait Gallery. There, her main task is to lead the project Reframing Narratives: Women in Portraiture, a new three-year project supported by CHANEL Culture Fund, which aims to enhance the representation of female artists and sitters in the Gallery’s Collection. 

From 2016 to 2020 she was a Teaching Fellow in the History of Art Department at University College London (UCL) and continues to be a longstanding member of faculty on Sotheby’s Institute’s MA in Contemporary Art. Previously she was Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, where she worked on exhibitions, acquisitions and permanent collection displays. At Tate Modern she co-curated The World Goes Pop (2015), and was responsible for: Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (2014), Paul Klee: Making Visible (2013) and Ruins in Reverse (2013).

Flavia Frigeri has published academic and catalogue essays and articles on a range of subjects including: post-war European art with a focus on Italian art, pop art, exhibition histories and feminist art. Between 2018 and 2019, she published two books, Pop Art and Women Artists both in Thames & Hudson’s Art Essentials series. Most recently, she co-edited a volume of collected essays New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms (Routledge, 2021) texts which originated in a symposium held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Copenhagen in 2017.

Flavia Frigeri visited Vienna on a research trip in September 2023.

Flavia Frigeri, Photo: Isabelle Young