Elena Ochoa Foster

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fernández–Ferreiro and the second or maternal family name is López–Ochoa.
Ochoa Foster at Ivorypress

Elena Ochoa, Baroness Foster of Thames Bank (born Elena Fernández-Ferreiro López de Ochoa; 1958) is a Spanish publisher and art curator, and formerly a professor of psychopathology. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Ivorypress.

Early life[]

Ochoa Foster was born in Ourense, Spain.

Career[]

Ochoa Foster was a tenured lecturer in Psychopathology at the Complutense University of Madrid for almost two decades and was honorary professor at King's College in London until 2001. As well as obtaining a Fulbright scholarship to undertake postdoctoral studies at the University of Illinois (Chicago) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), throughout her career she has been visiting lecturer and researcher in Psychopathology at several universities both in Europe and the United States. She has worked at RNE and Televisión Española and has been a regular contributor to several newspapers.

In 1996 in London, Ochoa Foster founded Ivorypress, a private organization that carries out publishing and curatorial activities, which comprises an art gallery, a publishing house specialising in artists' books, and a bookshop focusing on photography, architecture and contemporary art. She remains its chief executive officer.

She runs the C Photo project, whose aim is to promote photography through publications, exhibitions, and academic and institutional support. Ivorypress has sponsored the first Humanitas Visiting Professorships in Contemporary Art at the University of Oxford, founded in collaboration with the Humanitas programme.

Ochoa Foster has curated international exhibitions in close collaboration with the Ivorypress team, including C on Cities (10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, 2006), Blood on Paper (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2008), Real Venice (54th Venice Art Biennale, Venice, 2011), Real Venice (Somerset House, London, 2012) and ToledoContemporánea (Fundación El Greco, Toledo, 2014).

She is a member of MoMA's Library Council and serves on the advisory board of the Prix Pictet photography award. She has been the president of the jury at the Swiss photography award, Alt+1000. She was the president of the Tate International Council for five years and a member of the Tate Foundation's board of directors from 2004 to 2008, as well as that of the Noguchi Foundation. As a patron, she supports a variety of museums and foundations including the Museo del Prado and the Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain, alongside several international schools of contemporary art and photography such as Spain's Academy of the Arts and the Cinematographic Sciences.

Ochoa Foster has collaborated on publishing, educational and artistic projects with artists such as Ai Weiwei, Claes Oldenburg, William Kentridge, Maya Lin, Thomas Struth, Cristina Iglesias, Los Carpinteros, Richard Long and Anselm Kiefer among others. She has been executive producer of several documentaries, among them How much your building weigh Mr Foster (2010) and Shooting the Mafia (2019).

She is the Chair of the Council of the Serpentine Galleries, London, UK, and serves as Correspondent Academician in Switzerland for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

Awards[]

  • MujerHoy Award. Spain, 2020
  • Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award. Spain, 2016
  • Ibero-American Patronage Award. Spain, 2016
  • Real Fundación de Toledo Award in the 'Curator' category for the exhibition'ToledoContemporánea'. Spain, 2015
  • Gold Medal Queen Sofia Spanish Institute. New York, USA, 2012
  • Editorial Award. Fuera de Serie, Spain, 2011.
  • Montblanc Award. Spain, 2010
  • Alfiler de Oro Award, Asociación Mujer Siglo XXI. Spain, 2009.
  • AD Award. Architectural Digest España. Spain, 2007

Personal life[]

She is married to the English architect, Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank.[1][2]

She lives and works between Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom and the US.[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ Carpenter, Louise (1 October 2011). "Why Elena Ochoa won't let marriage to Norman Foster slow her down". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  2. ^ "Elena Ochoa Foster — 'I am an agitator, to push the artist to go to their limit'". www.ft.com. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-30.

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