Adrian Searle
Adrian Searle is an art critic for The Guardian, and has been writing for the paper since 1996. Previously he was a painter.
Life and career
Searle studied at the St Albans School of Art, Trent Polytechnic and the Winchester School of Art. He has taught at Central St Martins College of Art, Chelsea College of Art and Goldsmiths College, De Ateliers, Amsterdam. From 2007 to 2012 he was Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art, London.Searle has curated exhibitions internationally. These include:
- Promises Promises, a group exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 1989
- Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, an international exhibition, co-curated with Greg Hilty, at the Hayward Gallery, London, 1994
- Glad That Things Don't Talk, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004
- Pepe Espaliú retrospective at Reina Sofia, Madrid, co-curated with Juan Vicente Aliaga, 2004
- Juan Muñoz, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2006
- Julião Sarmento: Close Distance, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2011
- Juan Muñoz: An inaccessible moment, Frith Street Gallery, London, co-curated with Jane Hamlyn, 2012
Searle has been a juror for the Turner Prize, 2004, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, 1996, Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital, 2009, and Kurt Schwitters Prize, 2009–13.
Before joining The Guardian, he wrote for The Independent, Time Out and contributed regularly to Artscribe magazine, Artforum, and frieze.
In 2007, he was decorated Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2011, Searle received an Honorary degree for Doctor of Art from Nottingham Trent University and in 2012 was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of the Arts London.
Searle is divorced. He has a daughter and two grandsons.
Reviews
- Jim Shaw's ICA "Thrift Store Paintings" :
- Chris Ofili's The Upper Room :
- Charles Saatchi :
- The Stuckists
- Damien Hirst :
- Tracey Emin :