Jo Baring is a curator, consultant and arts speaker and Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art, one of the UK’s leading art collections. As a graduate of Oxford and the Courtauld Institute Jo has curated exhibitions at museums and public galleries across the UK. A former Director of Christie’s UK, Jo is regularly requested to interview artists at museums and art fairs. She delivers lectures and takes part in panel discussions on all aspects of the art world. Her particular areas of expertise focus on 20th century & contemporary art, sculpture, arts philanthropy and the art market.
Jo is a trustee of arts charities ArtCan and the Artists Collecting Society, a member of the Association of Women in the Arts, she sits on the board of the Women of the Year charity, and on the Apollo Magazine Advisory Board. She is also on the authentication committee for the artist Elisabeth Frink and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. In Spring 2020 she released her first podcast series: ‘Sculpting Lives’, supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, which was awarded The Guardian’s Art Podcast of The Week.
Jo Baring is a curator, consultant and arts speaker and Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art, one of the UK’s leading art collections. As a graduate of Oxford and the Courtauld Institute Jo has curated exhibitions at museums and public galleries across the UK. A former Director of Christie’s UK, Jo is regularly requested to interview artists at museums and art fairs. She delivers lectures and takes part in panel discussions on all aspects of the art world. Her particular areas of expertise focus on 20th century & contemporary art, sculpture, arts philanthropy and the art market.
Jo is a trustee of arts charities ArtCan and the Artists Collecting Society, a member of the Association of Women in the Arts, she sits on the board of the Women of the Year charity, and on the Apollo Magazine Advisory Board. She is also on the authentication committee for the artist Elisabeth Frink and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. In Spring 2020 she released her first podcast series: ‘Sculpting Lives’, supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, which was awarded The Guardian’s Art Podcast of The Week.