Lara Strongman
{{Short description|New Zealand curator, artistic director, writer, art historian}}
Lara Strongman is a curator, writer and art historian from New Zealand.{{Cite web |title=Marie Shannon talks to Lara Strongman |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/bulletin/193/marie-shannon-talks-to-lara-strongman |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Lara Strongman |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22518304 |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}{{Cite web |date=2019-02-28 |title=Viewing with Lara Strongman |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018684499/viewing-with-lara-strongman |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}}
Biography
Strongman studied art history at the University of Canterbury, graduating with a master of art's degree in 1991, with a thesis on Tony Fomison.{{cite thesis |last=Strongman |first=Lara |year=1991 |type=Masters thesis |title=Tony Fomison : an artist's life. |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |hdl=10092/12023 |doi=10.26021/4634 |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/12023}} In 2013 she completed a PhD in art history, with a thesis on Colin McCahon, at Victoria University of Wellington.{{Cite web |title=Leadership team {{!}} MCA Australia |url=https://www.mca.com.au/about-us/who-we-are/leadership-team/ |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=www.mca.com.au |language=en}}{{cite thesis |last=Strongman |first=Lara |year=2013 |type=Doctoral thesis |title='The Awful Stuff': Colin McCahon, High Art, and the Common Culture 1947-2000 |publisher=Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington |doi=10.26686/wgtn.17142677 |url=https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/_The_Awful_Stuff_Colin_McCahon_High_Art_and_the_Common_Culture_1947-2000/17142677|doi-access=free }}
Strongman held the position of deputy director to Paula Savage at City Gallery Wellington until her appointment as senior curator at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in 2014.{{Cite web |date=2014-07-02 |title=Christchurch Art Gallery appoints senior curator |url=https://thebigidea.nz/work/enterprise-news/2014/jul/142554-christchurch-art-gallery-appoints-senior-curator |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=The Big Idea |language=en}} In 2019 she was appointed director of curatorial and digital at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
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Category:University of Canterbury alumni
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:New Zealand art historians