The Curator

Celebrated Melbourne-based curator Victoria Lynn is the curator of turbulence: the 3rd Auckland Triennial.

New Zealand's largest and most prestigious international contemporary art exhibition is pleased to have attracted a curator of Victoria's calibre. Director, Chris Saines enthuses, "Victoria brings a wealth of knowledge to the exhibition. She is no stranger to biennales with involvement in Queensland's Asia Pacific Triennial, as the Australian Commissioner for the Venice Biennale in 2003 and as curator of Tarrawarra Museum of Art's inaugural biennial in mid-2006".

Contemporary curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for over a decade, Victoria more recently worked as Director, Creative Development, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne.

Victoria sees the role of the Auckland Triennial as "stimulating and enriching the lives of the art communities, while also providing a window onto the world of contemporary creativity for a wider audience." Adding that "the Triennial looks both inward and outward: to the needs of the local communities and to the flux of international art. It creates a dialogue between the local and the global."

Victoria Lynn drew on the advice of two consulting curators: Marina Fokidis, Director of Oxymoron, Athens, Greece and Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Director of TEOR/éTica, San Jose, Costa Rica. Victoria reflects, “Marina and Virginia provided independent curatorial expertise, access to a number of international artists and intellectual input of the highest order.”

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