Cliff Lauson

Dr Cliff Lauson is currently Director of Exhibitions at Somerset House, London overseeing the exhibitions and commissions programme. He has personally curated commissions by international artists such as Hylozoic/Desires, Jitish Kallat, Zheng Bo, Amba Sayal-Bennet and Theresa Weber. He is currently curating a major exhibition with internationally renowned choreographer, Sir Wayne McGregor, forthcoming October 2025.

Until 2022, Cliff was Senior Curator at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, having organised major exhibitions of work by Matthew Barney, Bridget Riley, Martin Creed, Ernesto Neto, Tracey Emin, and David Shrigley as well as the critically-acclaimed group exhibitions Strange Clay, Light Show and Space Shifters. Independently, he recently curated Rana Begum: Dappled Light at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, which toured internationally. Cliff has held previous positions at Tate Modern and at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver. He currently serves on the steering group for the Artfund Curatorial Diversity Programme, is a former trustee of Film and Video Umbrella, and a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Cliff Lauson is invited by Frame in the context of the Helsinki Biennial 2025. His visit is made possible thanks to the support of the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.