Chief Curator, Castello di Rivoli Museum Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is selected the curator of the Biennale of Sydney 2008. She has been Chief Curator of Castello di Rivoli Museum Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy, since 2002 and was Co-curator of the 2005 Turin Triennial. A member of the 2001 Venice Biennale jury, Christov-Bakargiev has written extensively on Italian and international art for publishers including Phaidon Press and SKIRA, and is the author of Arte Povera (1999). She was Curator of Castello di Rivoli exhibitions: The Moderns (2003), William Kentridge (2004), Pierre Huyghe (2004), Kline (2004) and Faces In the Crowd (2004-2005). Christov-Bakargiev was previously Senior Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York - A Museum of Modern Affiliate from 1999-2001, where she co-curated Greater New York (2000) and organised group and solo exhibitions includingAround 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties (2000), Animations (2001) and Janet Cardiff (2001). In 1993 she was a co-curator of Antwerp European Capital of Culture. Christov-Bakargiev is based in Rome and Turin.