Senior Curator Midlands Arts Centre
Roma Piotrowska is a curator and writer with extensive experience in curating, managing exhibitions, events and budgets, as well as producing and contributing to publications. She is currently the Senior Curator at Midlands Arts Centre, where she oversees an ambitious programme of exhibitions and public events. Previously, she worked as Curator at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and as Senior Exhibitions Manager at Ikon Gallery, where she coordinated exhibitions and publications for artists such as Dan Flavin, Sheela Gowda and Roger Hiorns.
Her writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues including Su Richardson – In Stitches, Artur Żmijewski: Selected Works (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), and The 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana. She has also contributed articles to journals such as engage and to magazines including This is Tomorrow, Contemporary Lynx, and Daily Art Magazine.
Roma has also supported the Iraq Pavilions at the Venice Biennale (2013–2019) and served as Curatorial Assistant for the 4th Guangzhou Triennial in 2012. She is the co-founder of Centrala Gallery in Birmingham and has led projects such as Clipping the Church by Tereza Bušková (2016) and the art strand for the Artloop Festival in Sopot, Poland (2015).
Roma’s headshot was taken by Victoria Beddoes.