Inga Fraser

Dr Inga Fraser is a curator and art historian with a special interest in the intersections of modern art with emerging media and the broader visual cultures of the twentieth century. She is currently Senior Curator, House and Collection at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Kettle’s Yard, she worked as a freelance Curator at Tate Britain on the exhibition, Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990. Her PhD (2016-23) was a collaborative doctoral partnership between Tate and the Royal College of Art that explored artists’ engagement with film in the first half of the twentieth century in London, focusing on intermedial practices and the developing discourse of artists’ moving image. Before beginning her PhD she was Assistant Curator of Modern British Art at Tate (2013-2017) where she co-curated exhibitions and displays including Paule Vézelay (2017), Paul Nash (2016) and Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World (2015). Inga has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art and an Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and has previously also held curatorial positions at the English Heritage (Curator of Collections and Interiors, 2021-22), the National Portrait Gallery (Assistant Curator, Twentieth Century and Contemporary, 2011-2013) and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (Associate Curator, Fashion in Film, 2009-2011). She has contributed essays to artist monographs and anthologies published by Courtisane, Lund Humphries, Koenig and Ashgate, and written for peer-reviewed journals and magazines including British Art Studies, Sculpture Journal, Costume, Document and Tate Etc.