Director of Curatorial Projects
Thames & Hudson
London / New York / Paris / Singapore / Hong Kong / Melbourne
William A. Ewing is a noted author, curator, professor, and museum director with almost forty years of work in the field of photography, split almost equally between America and Europe. His career began in Canada, where he established Optica Center for Contemporary Art in Montreal in 1972 before moving to New York in 1977, where he served as Director of Exhibitions for seven years.
His exhibitions have been shown in many museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, and the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York; the Serpentine Gallery, the Barbican Art Gallery, the Whitechapel Gallery and the Hayward Gallery, London; the Jeu de Paume, the Centre Pompidou, and the Musée Carnavalet, Paris; the Kunsthaus, Zurich; the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Museo Correr, Venice; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal; the Vancouver Art Gallery; the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City; and the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, which he directed from 1996 to 2010. In 2009 he was co-curator of the New York Photo Festival, and in 2010 he curated three shows for the French festival, Les Rencontres d'Arles.
Mr Ewing is the author of many books, including the bestselling The Body; Face: The New Photographic Portrait; Dance and Photography; reGeneration: Tomorrow's Photographers Today (editions in 2005 and 2010); and many monographs on such artists as Ray K. Metzker, Leonard Freed, Erwin Blumenfeld, George Hoyningen-Huene, Dan Weiner and Edward Steichen.
Mr Ewing is currently Director of Curatorial Projects for the publishing house Thames & Hudson (London/New York/Paris/Hong Kong/Singapore/Melbourne), and Curator for Special Projects at the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (Minneapolis/Paris/Lausanne). Mr Ewing has taught the history of photography at the University of Geneva for over a decade. On retiring from the Musee de l'Elysee in 2010, he was appointed Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the Republic of France.