Judith GREER
Judith Greer has served as Director of International Programmes for Sharjah Art Foundation since 2014, having previously been appointed as the Programme’s Associate Director in 2008. In this role she has spearheaded the Foundation’s extensive international activities including exhibitions, partnerships, events and projects both in Sharjah and around the world. Greer previously worked as International Director at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Currently an advisory board member of Public Arts Trust of India and a juror in their international selection committee for the upcoming Jaipur Art Week’s Open Call, Greer served as trustee of Artangel, UK, from 2004 to 2010 and was Chair in 2008. She served as juror for the Max Mara Prize for Women Artists (2007) and the Dubai-based Sheikha Manal Foundation Prize for young Emirati artists (2009). Co-author of Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector’s Handbook (2006), she lectures internationally on the topics of institutional practice, arts patronage and the Middle East art and cultural world. Greer was born in the United States and resided 13 years in Tokyo before relocating to London in 1993, where she continues to live and work today.