Leigh Markopoulos
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1968|09|10}}
| birth_place = Hannover, Germany
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|02|24|1968|09|10}}
| death_place = Los Angeles
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| occupation = Curator, professor
| years_active = 1991-2017
| known_for = Art History and Curatorial studies
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Leigh Markopoulos (1968{{Spaced en dash}}2017) was an American art critic, curator, and teacher.{{Cite news|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/id=66896|title=Leigh Markopoulos (1968–2017)|work=artforum.com|access-date=2017-03-11|language=en-us}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=leigh-markopoulos&pid=184281494|title=Leigh Markopoulos's Obituary on San Francisco Chronicle|website=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=2017-03-26}} Markopoulos was the chair of the graduate program in curatorial practice at California College of the Arts.{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Prominent-SF-art-critic-professor-Leigh-10958217.php|title=Leigh Markopoulos, prominent SF art critic and instructor, dies|work=SFGate|access-date=2017-03-16}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/lmarkopoulos|title=Leigh Markopoulos {{!}} California College of the Arts|website=www.cca.edu|access-date=2017-03-16}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cca.edu/news/2007/markopoulos|title=Leigh Markopoulos Appointed Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice {{!}} California College of the Arts|website=www.cca.edu|access-date=2017-03-16}} She had curated over 50 exhibitions, including ones at the Serpentine Gallery and the Hayward Gallery.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/23/leigh-markopoulos-obituary|title=Leigh Markopoulos obituary|last=Rugoff|first=Ralph|date=2017-03-23|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-03-26|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} Her focus was the art and artworld of the 1960s and 1970s.{{Cite news|url=https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/03/09/remembering-leigh-markopolous-teacher-curator-writer-and-heavy-metal-vocalist/|title=Remembering Leigh Markopoulos, Teacher, Curator, Writer and Heavy Metal Vocalist|work=KQED Arts|access-date=2017-03-26|language=en-us}}
Early life and education
Leigh Markopoulos was born in Hannover, Germany, and grew up in Iraq, Australia and the UK. Markopoulos received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southampton, in Great Britain.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cca.edu/news/2007/markopoulos|title=Leigh Markopoulos Appointed Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice {{!}} California College of the Arts|website=www.cca.edu|access-date=2017-03-26}}
Career
Starting in 1991, Markopoulos worked as a curator in London, first at the Hayward gallery, and then at the Serpentine gallery. At the Serpentine she worked with artists that included Richard Artschwager, Hans Haacke and Bridget Riley. In 2002 she moved to San Francisco to become the deputy director at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art. From 2005 to 2008 she was the director at the Rena Bransten gallery. In 2008 she began teaching full-time at CCA as chair of the curatorial practice program, in which she had been teaching part-time since 2003. In 2010 she started working with Creative Growth, a center for artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities, where she curated Love is a Stranger (2010).{{cite web|title=Love is a Stranger|date=15 July 2010 |url=https://www.creativegrowth.org/exhibitions/love-is-a-stranger/|publisher=Creative Growth|access-date=11 March 2017}}
Publications
=Books and exhibition catalogues=
- {{Cite book|title = Great Expectations: Prospects for the Future of Curatorial Education|last2 = Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Köln|date = 2016|isbn = 978-3-86335-914-0|last1 = Markopoulos|first1 = Leigh| publisher=Koenig Books }}
- Smith, Terry, Leigh Markopoulos and Kate Fowle, eds. Talking Contemporary Curating. New York: Independent Curators International, 2015.
- {{cite book| first=Leigh | last=Markopoulos | title=Wendover | publisher=California College of the Arts | location=San Francisco | year=2010 }}
- Markopoulos, Leigh and Julian Myers, eds. "HSz : as is/as if." San Francisco: California College of the Arts, 2010.
- Neshat, Shirin, and Leigh Markopoulos. Shirin Neshat. London: Serpentine Gallery, 2000.
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