Melanie Pocock

IKON Gallery, Birmingham
Curator

Melanie Pocock is artistic director of exhibitions at IKON Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, where she has worked since 2020. She leads IKON’s exhibition programme, publications and coordinates off-site projects with the wider team. Prior to IKON, she was assistant curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, where she curated more than 60 exhibitions with South East Asian and international artists. Recent exhibitions include Horror in the Modernist Block (2022), a group exhibition exploring the relationship between architectural modernism and horror through contemporary art, and Foreign Exchange (2022), a reimagining of Birmingham’s statue of Queen Victoria by Hew Locke RA for the Birmingham 2022 Festival. As an editor and writer, Pocock contributes to exhibition catalogues and monographs, and has written essays, articles and reviews for Art Asia Pacific, Art Monthly, frieze, Kaleidoscope, LEAP, Ocula, Phaidon, The Financial Times, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Di'van | A Journal of Accounts and Third Text. A member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), she holds an MA with distinction in curating contemporary art from the Royal College of Art, London.

Melanie Pocock was invited on a curatorial research trip in 2021.

Melanie Pocock. Photo: Tegen Kimbley.