Alyce Mahon

Alyce Mahon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, England. Born in Galway in the west of Ireland, she studied Modern English and History of Art at Trinity College Dublin and then took her doctoral degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1999), prior to being appointed at the University of Cambridge in 2000. She specialises in Surrealism, feminist art practice, and contemporary art and politics in her publications and work as curator. Recent exhibitions she has curated include the first major retrospective of American Surrealist 'Dorothea Tanning' for the Reina Sofia Madrid and Tate Modern London (2018-19) and 'SADE: Freedom or Evil' for the CCCB (2023).