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Linda Rocco

Linda Rocco

  • Course leader

  • Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Theory and Practice

Linda is an independent curator and researcher. Her curatorial practice converges with an interest in emerging technologies, social systems and situations, and collaborative infrastructures.

Linda has extensive experience in curating exhibitions, public programmes, and residencies, with established international organisations such as Delfina Foundation, Yinka Shonibare Foundation, Goethe Institut and the Mayor of London. Specialised in practice-based research at the intersection of art, curating and new media, with a focus rooted in network cultures, Linda has worked with artists, collectives and organisations worldwide, from Denmark to Thailand, Ghana, Taiwan and the US, and has consulted for numerous London councils, Arts Council England, the Creative Cities Challenge and Frieze Art Fair. Trained in art history and curating, her doctoral research at the Royal College of Art is focused on developing new art ecologies for Industry 5.0. She has published in Art Monthly, and her curatorial projects have been featured on the BBC, The London Evening Standard, Art Daily, Kunstbulletin, Arte e Critica Magazine, The Quietus, Dazed and GQ.

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Gallery

  • Keiken, What Body Would You Like To Occupy?, 2022. As part of ‘A Manifesto of Presence’, Figueretes 22 residency exhibition, Ibiza, Spain

    Keiken, What Body Would You Like To Occupy?, 2022. As part of ‘A Manifesto of Presence’, Figueretes 22 residency exhibition, Ibiza, Spain

  • Installation view, ‘A Manifesto of Presence’, Figueretes 22 residency exhibition, Ibiza, Spain. Artists: Alex Baczyinski-Jenkins, Keiken, Ndaye Kouagou, Jorge Isla, Andres Izquierdo, Raissa Pardini, Katrine Skovsgaard.

    Installation view, ‘A Manifesto of Presence’, Figueretes 22 residency exhibition, Ibiza, Spain. Artists: Alex Baczyinski-Jenkins, Keiken, Ndaye Kouagou, Jorge Isla, Andres Izquierdo, Raissa Pardini, Katrine Skovsgaard.

  • Yinka Shonibare, Freedom, 2022. Commissioned as part of ‘Liberty Festival’ and We Are Lewisham, the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2022. ph: Samuel Dore

    Yinka Shonibare, Freedom, 2022. Commissioned as part of ‘Liberty Festival’ and We Are Lewisham, the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2022. ph: Samuel Dore

  • Lawrence Lek and Clifford Sage, Live & Ambient, 2017. As part of ‘LOST SENSES’ exhibition at Yinka Shonibare Studio Guest Projects, London. ph: Massimiliano Giorgeschi

    Lawrence Lek and Clifford Sage, Live & Ambient, 2017. As part of ‘LOST SENSES’ exhibition at Yinka Shonibare Studio Guest Projects, London. ph: Massimiliano Giorgeschi

  • Patrick Lichty, Construction Set, 2020. As part of ‘New Digital Collage’ exhibition co-curated with Fabio Paris

    Patrick Lichty, Construction Set, 2020. As part of ‘New Digital Collage’ exhibition co-curated with Fabio Paris

  • Rhine Bernardino, Regla Series, 2016-2017. As part of ‘The Hybrid Guest’ exhibition at Laure Genillard Gallery, London. ph: plastiques

    Rhine Bernardino, Regla Series, 2016-2017. As part of ‘The Hybrid Guest’ exhibition at Laure Genillard Gallery, London. ph: plastiques

  • Jelili Atiku, Dìde, Dúró, Fara bal̀ẹ fún Ògìrììyàndá, 2020. As part of ‘Where I’m Coming From I’ digital programme

    Jelili Atiku, Dìde, Dúró, Fara bal̀ẹ fún Ògìrììyàndá, 2020. As part of ‘Where I’m Coming From I’ digital programme

  • Lea Porre, Ekpyrosis, 2021. As part of ‘CAP Contemporary Art Practice RCA Exhibition’ at Cromwell Place, London.

    Lea Porre, Ekpyrosis, 2021. As part of ‘CAP Contemporary Art Practice RCA Exhibition’ at Cromwell Place, London.

  • Suzanna Pettigrew, Intrapsychic Crisis, 2018. As part of ‘Guest Projects 10’, Yinka Shonibare Studio Guest Projects, London. ph: Mike Massaro

    Suzanna Pettigrew, Intrapsychic Crisis, 2018. As part of ‘Guest Projects 10’, Yinka Shonibare Studio Guest Projects, London. ph: Mike Massaro

  • Laura Wilson, Four, 2017. As part of ‘LOST SENSES’ exhibition at Yinka Shonibare Studio Guest Projects, London. ph: Massimiliano Giorgeschi

    Laura Wilson, Four, 2017. As part of ‘LOST SENSES’ exhibition at Yinka Shonibare Studio Guest Projects, London. ph: Massimiliano Giorgeschi

More information

LAHP Doctoral Award, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2020-2024

Publications

Rocco, L. (2024). Jenny Brockmann: Bypass. In Jenny Brockmann: Bypass. Germany: Distanz Verlag.

Rocco, L. (2023). The Work of Artists. Art Monthly, 469.

Rocco, L. (2023). Laure Genillard in conversation with curator Linda Rocco. In: Laure Genillard Gallery 1988-2022.

Rocco, L (2021). New Digital Collage. In newdigitalcollage.art, exhibition catalogue.

Rocco, L. (2018). The Construction of A Situation. In Brgy. South Kensington. London: Inventory Platform with My Parent’s House, pp. 79-81

Exhibitions & Public Programmes (selection)

(2024) Human-alike. NARS Foundation. Brooklyn. NYC.

(2022) Liberty Festival. Mayor of London.

(2022) A Manifesto of Presence. Figueretes 22 residency exhibition, Ses12Naus. Ibiza, Spain.

(2022) Economies of Value: New Art Ecologies. Conference, Royal College of Art and LAHP.

(2022) Jenny Brockmann: Bypass. Goethe Institut. London.

(2021) Where I’m Coming From II. Online. supported by Genesis and Bagri Foundation.

(2021) CAP Contemporary Art Practice RCA Exhibition. Cromwell Place. London.

(2020) Where I’m Coming From I. Online. Supported by Yinka Shonibare Foundation and the Ministry of Culture Taiwan .

(2020) The Hybrid Guest. Laure Genillard Gallery. London.

(2019) Auto/fiction. Royal College of Art. London.

(2019) There’s Something Lurking in The Shadow.... Royal College of Art. London.

(2018) Guest Projects 10. Yinka Shonibare Guest Projects. London.

(2017) LOST SENSES. Yinka Shonibare Guest Projects. London.

(2017) Open House. Delfina Foundation.

External links

lindarocco.art