Ralph Rugoff OBE (born 12 January 1957) is an American-born curator, the director of London's Hayward Gallery since 2006, and the curator of the Venice Biennale in 2019.[2]
Rugoff was born in New York City to a psychoanalyst, Evangeline Peterson, and Donald Rugoff, the film distributor and movie theater owner profiled in a 2019 film Searching for Mr. Rugoff.[3][4] He studied semiotics at Brown University.[4]
Rugoff was director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco for nearly six years, before becoming the director of London's Hayward Gallery.[3]
Rugoff was artistic director of the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.[5]
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to art.[6]
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