Richard Gregor

Historian, curator, and art critic. Studied at Trnava University and at Charles University in Prague. He has worked as chief curator at Nitra Gallery and Bratislava City Gallery, lectured in the Department of Art Theory and History at the Academy of Art in Banská Bystrica, and served as an independent expert on questions concerning galleries at the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic. He has curated more than fifty exhibitions at home and abroad and has written reviews and essays. Founder of the journals Dart (1999) and Jazdec (2009), he initiated the stipendium for young curators (2003) and is also the creator of the web-archive www.artdispecing.sk, the greatest source of visual art oral history in Slovakia. Former president of the Council of Slovak Galleries, as the vice-president of the Slovak Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) he was co-author and co-organizer of the XLVI AICA International Congress in Slovakia in 2013. He regularly participates in conferences and seminars, has lectured in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, China, Hungary, Croatia, South Korea, Chile, South Africa, UK, Poland, Italy and the USA, and has had stipendiary stays in the USA, Austria, UK, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Israel. In 2008, on his initiative, the Cyprián Majerník Gallery in Bratislava (originally founded in 1957) was re-established (existed till 2014). His book Haberernová´s Eye. Post-Informal Figuration in Slovak Visual Art of 1960s was published in 2013. In 2014 he worked as appointed director and till 2016 chief curator at Dom umenia/Kunsthalle Bratislava. In 2015 he organized the international conference Could We Speak of Bratislava Conceptualism? (Textbook published in 2022). In years 2016-2021 he was PhD candidate at Trnava University. In 2017 he received the fellowship at Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (MA, USA). After one-year curatorial appointment in Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín (Czech Republic) he serves for the second term as director of The Peter Michal Bohúň Gallery in Liptov (Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia) since 2019.