Shoair Mavlian is a curator at Tate Modern, London, focusing primarily on photography. Shoair researches acquisitions for the international collection whilst curating exhibitions and displays across Tate Modern. She curated the major exhibition The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection (Tate Modern, 2016), Conflict, Time, Photography (Tate Modern, 2014) and the collaborative exhibition Project Space: A Chronicle of Interventions (Tate Modern and TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica, 2014). Shoair has also worked on many of the photography displays of the permanent collection across Tate Modern including New Documentary Forms (2011), Lewis Baltz and Carl Andre (2012), Harry Callahan (2013), Charlotte Posenenske and Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (2014) and Close Up: Identity and the Photographic Portrait (2015). Her independent writing is regularly published in magazines and recent independent curatorial projects include the exhibition Don McCullin: Looking Beyond the Edge (Arles 2016) and In flux (Kanellopoulos Cultural Centre, Greece, 2015).

Shoair has a background in fine art photography practice and the history of photography focusing on the twentieth century. She has a strong interest in photography relating to conflict and memory, Central and Latin American photography and emerging contemporary practice.

Selection

    • Werner Fleischmann, Triple, Schnaittach, Germany, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Werner Fleischmann, Triple, Schnaittach, Germany, 2016
    • Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Josh and Jermaine., Frankfurt, Germany, 2015 | DER GREIF
      Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Josh and Jermaine., Frankfurt, Germany, 2015
    • Stefanie Schmid Rincon, Toystories, Pennsylvania, Usa, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Stefanie Schmid Rincon, Toystories, Pennsylvania, Usa, 2016
    • Alessandro Bo, plate 1, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Alessandro Bo, plate 1, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico, 2016
    • Nad E Ali, Cola on the wall, Walled City Lahore, Pakistan , 2016 | DER GREIF
      Nad E Ali, Cola on the wall, Walled City Lahore, Pakistan , 2016
    • Panos Kefalos, saints., Athens,greece, 2013 | DER GREIF
      Panos Kefalos, saints., Athens,greece, 2013
    • Isaac Blease, Nathan Chellah, Manda Wanga, 2015 | DER GREIF
      Isaac Blease, Nathan Chellah, Manda Wanga, 2015
    • Riccardo Banfi, Tigre (from I found myself in Guwahati), Guwahati, 2015 | DER GREIF
      Riccardo Banfi, Tigre (from I found myself in Guwahati), Guwahati, 2015
    • Sergey Novikov, Kuz’kina Mat’, Zato, 2015 | DER GREIF
      Sergey Novikov, Kuz’kina Mat’, Zato, 2015
    • Andrea S. Neri, Saluggia Various Nuclear Sites, Trino – Italy, 2015 | DER GREIF
      Andrea S. Neri, Saluggia Various Nuclear Sites, Trino – Italy, 2015
    • Mariusz Drezniak, Surface tension, Universe, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Mariusz Drezniak, Surface tension, Universe, 2016
    • Vedad Divovic, Tito, Bunker, Konjic, Bih, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Vedad Divovic, Tito, Bunker, Konjic, Bih, 2016
    • Cooperativa De Fotógrafos Sub, La resistencia II, Buenos Aires, 2003 | DER GREIF
      Cooperativa De Fotógrafos Sub, La resistencia II, Buenos Aires, 2003
    • Mikhail Grebenshchikov, Through the Looking-Glass, Russia, Moscow, 2012 | DER GREIF
      Mikhail Grebenshchikov, Through the Looking-Glass, Russia, Moscow, 2012
    • Toby Binder, Belfast running, Belfast, 2010 | DER GREIF
      Toby Binder, Belfast running, Belfast, 2010
    • Neal Mcqueen, BREAD, Idomeni Greece, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Neal Mcqueen, BREAD, Idomeni Greece, 2016
    • Jonathan LLense, Untitled-El uno sin el otro , México D.f., 2014 | DER GREIF
      Jonathan LLense, Untitled-El uno sin el otro , México D.f., 2014
    • Jaime Travezan, Car, Albania, 1999 | DER GREIF
      Jaime Travezan, Car, Albania, 1999
    • David Southwood, untitled 2, Katse Dam, Lesotho, 2015 | DER GREIF
      David Southwood, untitled 2, Katse Dam, Lesotho, 2015
    • Melissa Arras, El Dorado, Calais, France , 2015 | DER GREIF
      Melissa Arras, El Dorado, Calais, France , 2015
    • Alejandra Carles-Tol, Julia, Providence, Rhode Island, 2014 | DER GREIF
      Alejandra Carles-Tol, Julia, Providence, Rhode Island, 2014
    • Helen Korpak, Anna, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Helen Korpak, Anna, 2016
    • Ulla Deventer, Beyoncé / I’ve Never Been Big sick, Antwerp, Belgium, 2015 | DER GREIF
      Ulla Deventer, Beyoncé / I’ve Never Been Big sick, Antwerp, Belgium, 2015
    • Can Dagarslani, Serenity, Dessau, Bauhaus, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Can Dagarslani, Serenity, Dessau, Bauhaus, 2016
    • Max Slobodda, ohne titel, Köln, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Max Slobodda, ohne titel, Köln, 2016
    • Lee Saloutos, Abandoned Court House, Belmont NV, #20, Belmont, Nv (us), 2010 | DER GREIF
      Lee Saloutos, Abandoned Court House, Belmont NV, #20, Belmont, Nv (us), 2010
    • Patrick Sean Quinn, Happy Holidays 4, Forest Lawn Cemetery Hollywood, 2013 | DER GREIF
      Patrick Sean Quinn, Happy Holidays 4, Forest Lawn Cemetery Hollywood, 2013