Tony Godfrey

Tony Godfrey

Tony Godfrey is an art historian and curator. He has been writing on contemporary art for over thirty-five years and to date he has published more than 130 articles and 300 short pieces.

Research Focus:

1. Conceptual art in Southeast Asia (Maritime) and its relationship to conceptual art globally

2. The status of conceptual art and nature of installation art in Southeast Asia

Tony

Godfrey

2015/2016

NTU CCA Singapore

1951

United Kingdom

Art historian

Curator

Tony Godfrey is an art historian and curator. His most recent curatorial collaboration was “Far away, but strangely familiar: twenty-three contemporary artists from the Philippines” (2019). From 2014 to 2020, he published Tuesday in the Tropics, an online-distributed illustrated weekly letter. In 2020, his book on the Chinese painter Ding Yi was published (co-written with Wang Kaimei, publ. Lund Humphries), as was his history of contemporary art, The Story of Contemporary Art (Thames and Hudson). He was a research fellow at NTU CCA Singapore in 2015.