Olivia Aherne

Chisenhale Gallery, London
Curator

Olivia Aherne is a curator at the Chisenhale Gallery in London, UK. Prior to this, she was a curator at the Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham, UK, where she worked from 2019 to 2021. While at Nottingham Contemporary, she worked on exhibitions and new commissions by Meriem Bennani, Mélanie Matranga, Lis Rhodes, Diane Simpson and Sung Tieu. As an independent curator, she developed projects for Nir Altman, Munich (2020); Art Night, London (2019); SAFA, Shanghai; LUX and Lewisham Arthouse, London (2018). In 2018, she was awarded the NEON Curatorial Award in partnership with the NEON Foundation and the Whitechapel Gallery.

Olivia Aherne was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2019, when she was a curator at the Nottingham Contemporary.

Olivia Aherne. Photo: courtesy of the curator.