Gustavo Grandal Montero

Gustavo Grandal Montero is an art librarian, researcher and editor, currently Library Collections and Engagement Manager at Tate. His research interests span contemporary art documentation and publishing, particularly artists’ publishing, and the relations between experimental literary and visual arts from the 1950s to the 1990s, with a focus on Concrete poetry. He has contributed to a range of academic and professional journals, including Artist’s Book Yearbook, Print Quarterly and Blue Notebook, and monographs: Dom Sylvester Houédard (Ridinghouse, 2017), The handbook of art and design librarianship (Facet, 2017), Please come to the show (Occasional Papers, 2014), Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter (Occasional Papers, 2012). Gustavo is Editor of the Art Libraries Journal (Cambridge University Press) and a doctoral candidate at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. He has curated several exhibitions, most recently ‘Document or artwork?’ at Tate Britain (2022) and ‘Astro-poems and Vertical Group Exercises: Concrete poetry at CSA’ at Chelsea Space, London (2018).