Paul Goodwin is a British independent curator, urban theorist, academic and researcher,[1] whose projects particularly focus on black and diaspora artists and visual cultures.
[3] He was Consultant Curator for the international exhibition Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic that took place at Tate Liverpool between January and April 2010, and programmed the accompanying Global Exhibitions symposium, co-editing a book based on papers from the symposium entitled Contemporary Art and the African Diaspora (Liverpool University Press).
[7] Notable exhibitions that Goodwin has curated and co-curated include Migrations: Journeys Into British Art (Tate Britain, 2012),[8] Thin Black Line(s) (Tate Britain, 2011),[9] Go Tell It On The Mountain: Towards A New Monumentalism (2011) and Ways of Seeing (2012) at 3-D Foundation Sculpture Park in Verbier, Switzerland, Coming Ashore (2011, Berardo Collection Museum in Lisbon, Portugal), Underconstruction (Hospital Julius De Matos, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009),[7] Transfigurations: Curatorial and Artistic Research in an Age of Migrations (MACBA Barcelona, 2014),[10] Ghosts (Hangar, Lisbon, 2016), Chloe Dewe Mathews: In Search of Frankenstein, 2016 (and British Library, London, 2018), Verbier 3D Foundation Sculpture Park, Switzerland, Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK, 2017.
Du Bois: Charting Black Lives, featuring the pioneering infographics of African-American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist W. E. B.
Questions of blackness, race and identity are then shown to be entangled in the multitude of concerns – aesthetic, material and political – that viewers can encounter without the curatorial voice obscuring the works.