Dominic Willsdon

Dominic Willsdon has taught within the graduate programs in curating and exhibition studies at the Royal College of Art, California College of the Arts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Essex and was associate researcher in philosophy at the Université de Paris.

From 2000 to 2005, Dominic was curator of public events at Tate Modern, London. He is a former editor of the Journal of Visual Culture, and has published articles on aesthetics, politics and education as well as serving as coeditor (with Diarmuid Costello) of The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics (Cornell UP, 2008). He is also a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Modern And Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster.

In 2006 Willsdon joined SFMOMA as the Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs where he directed the department of Education and Public Programs that produces talks, film screenings, live artists’ projects, the museum's blog, educational activities and resources for teachers, schools and families, and interpretive media for mobile devices and online platforms.

In 2010 he was the inaugural Kress Fellow in Museum Education at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. In 2011 he graduated from the Getty Museum Leadership Institute.