Glenn Sujo, ‘24 Ashchurch Park Villas: Theatre of Light’ in John Golding Remembered (Jenna Lundin-Aral, ed., with contributions by Dawn Adès, Richard Calvocoressi, Elizabeth Cowling, Christopher Green, John Richardson, Edmund de Waal, et al.) London: John Golding Artistic Trust, Spring 2021

Selected Publications, Lectures, Workshops & Symposia

2023/24

The Holocaust and the Visual Arts
Glenn Sujo, ‘The Holocaust and the Visual Arts: Perplexity, Meaning’, in Cambridge History of the Holocaust (Mark Roseman, ed.), Volume 4, ‘Outcomes, Aftermath, Repercussions’ (Laura Jockusch and Devin Pendas, ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 (forthcoming).

Colloquium & festschrift, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in honour of Dr. Shulamith Behr, co-convenor with Dr. Robin Schuldenfrei, Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London WC1X 9EW. Wednesday 20 March 2024 at 2.00pm.

Conference, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and Buchenwald Memorial Weimar, ‘Ekphrasis and interpretation, when words fail’ in ‘“To tear these images from time” Exploring Visual Representations from Nazi Camps, Ghettos and the Holocaust’, 9-12 October 2023. To view the full conference programme, click HERE.

Lecture, ‘East-West: Art, Rhetoric and Indexicality after 1945 (with Raised Arm and Fist)’ in Representations of the Holocaust in the Cold War Eastern Bloc: the Early Decades. Agata Pietrasik, Daniel Véri, Convenors. Contributors from Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, United Kingdom, United States. Harnack-Haus, Freie Universität Berlin, 9–10 June, 2023. To view the full conference programme, click HERE.

Colloquium, Tate Gallery Archives, London: Lecture, ‘Gleanings from the Sketchbooks of Jankel Adler: Roadmaps to Cosmopolitanism and International Modernism?’ in Émigré Art Archives Symposium, Tate Gallery Archives, London, 16 June 2023. Contributors: Monica Bohm-Duchen, Rachel Dickson, Peter Eaves, Adrian Glew, Alexandra Lazar, Sarah MacDougall, Joanne Rosenthal, Ines Schlenker, Glenn Sujo.

2021/22

Migrations & the Visual Arts: The Second Generation Experience
Keynote address, Young Blood and the Exterminatory Idea: A Continuum?
Symposium, University of Leicester, in association with the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 7 May 2021. A video of the lecture is available HERE.

Aporiai: Reworkings of the Visual Field after
Lecture, Aporiai: Reflections on the discontinuities of time, memory and the visual field after. Triennial Conference of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exiles Studies, University of London, 9–11 March 2021.

Bill Coldstream: Portraits of a Painter
Anthology of essays in celebration of the life of Sir William Coldstream CBE (1908–1987).
Glenn Sujo, ‘Desiderata’ in Bill Coldstream: Portraits of a Painter (ed. Catherine Coldstream, with contributions by Catherine Lampert, Lynda Morris, Peter Rumley et al) Oxford: The Coldstream Press, Spring 2021.

John Golding Remembered
Anthology of essays in celebration of the life-time achievement of artist, curator, educator and historian of modern art, Dr. John Golding CBE (1929—2012). Glenn Sujo, ‘24 Ashchurch Park Villas: Theatre of Light’ in John Golding Remembered (ed. Jenna Lundin-Aral, with contributions by Dawn Adès, Richard Calvocoressi, Elizabeth Cowling, Christopher Green, John Richardson, Edmund de Waal, et al.) London: John Golding Artistic Trust, Spring 2021.

2020

Diverging Paths: Aspects of Jankel Adler’s Posthumous Legacy
in ‘Driftwood Cast Upon a Foreign Shore’: Jankel Adler in Britain, 1940–49 (ed. Sarah MacDougall, Rachel Dickson) London: Ben Uri Art Gallery & Museum, forthcoming.

Tributes: Clara Diament Sujo (1921-2020)
Special edition ‘Papel Literario’, El Nacional, Caracas, 12 July 2020.

Drawing: Inquiry, Reprise, Insight
Convenor, workshop, West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, Chichester, 28 June – 1 July 2020. Postponed, forthcoming.

Conditions and Lineaments of The Human
Convenor, workshop, Bedford School in collaboration with the Higgins Art Gallery, Bedfordshire and Learning Pathways, 28 February – 1 March 2020.

Bodyscapes
Survey exhibition and book (curator and editor, Adina Kamien-Kazhdan)
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, February–October 2020; exhibition extended to July 2021.

Ghetto Suite and Allegories — a new body of work in progress.
Forthcoming touring exhibition and book, in preparation.

2019

Jankel Adler and Josef Herman: Friends, Orphans, Refugees
A conversation between David Herman and Glenn Sujo
Europe House, London, 10 October 2019

Yehuda Bacon: The Cursive Hand
in The Cold Shower of a New Life: The Post-War Diaries of a Child Survivor
(ed. Sharon Kangisser, Dorota Julia Nowak) Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2019

Modern Pluralities of Drawing (and odd rivals) in ‘Who is Afraid of Drawing?’
Lecture, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 8 June 2019

Yehuda Bacon: A Critical Reading and Excursus
Glenn Sujo in conversation with Sarah MacDougall, Director, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
London, 13 May 2019

Drawing Through Movement: Creativity, Improvisation
Convenor, three-day intensive workshop. Learning Pathways in association with The British Museum and Siobhan Davies Dance.
London, 28 February – 1 March 2019

2018

Archives of Latin American Art, Getty Research Institute
Curatorial development in collaboration with CDS Gallery.
New York and Los Angeles, July – December 2018

Jankel Adler: Tireless Invention and the Work of Hands
in Jankel Adler und die Avant Garde: Chagall, Dix, Klee, Picasso (ed. Antje Birthälmer and Gerhard Finckh) Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, 2018

2016

Extemporary Expressions: Creative Cultures and the Dynamic of Drawing into Painting
Lecture, Borough Road Gallery, London South Bank University, 25 June 2016

Art, War, Memory
Round-table discussion with Richard Cork, Albyn Leah Hall, John Keane, Glenn Sujo. Estelle Lovatt, Chair.
Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 17 April 2016

2015

R. B. Kitaj in London:  Citation, Commentary, Confession
Lecture, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 31 May 2015

Perplexity, aporiai: The Visual Imagination in extremis
Symposium, Art and Memory: Conflict and Conflict Resolution.
Tristram Riley-Smith, Chair; Glenn Sujo; Kathleen Palmer (Head of Art, Imperial War Museum); Šejla Kamerić (artist). Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge

2014

‘Müselmann: A Distilled Image of the Lager’
in Concentrationary Memories (ed. Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman) London: I. B. Tauris, 2014

Seeing extremis?
International Workshop, ‘Holocaust Art – An Essential Methodological Tool in Constructing Historical Narratives’, Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 9–11 February 2015

Traces, Arrows, Barbs, Darts, Quips
Lecture, Alexander Cozens Society, Eton College, Windsor, 31 October 2014

Leonardo, Michelangelo and Rubens: an anatomical tradition
Workshop, Royal Library Trust, Windsor, 7 October 2014

2013

R B Kitaj’s Obsessions: after Berlin, London
Lecture on the occasion of the exhibition R B Kitaj: Obsessions
Jewish Museum London, 20 February 2013

R B Kitaj: Diasporism, Dissemination and the Printed Image
Lecture on the occasion of the exhibition Kitaj: Prints
The British Museum, London, 9 August 2013

aporiai of the Visual
Arts & Sacred Traditions Lecture Series, King’s College London
in association with the Courtauld Institute of Art

On Transience and Traces
Lecture on the occasion of the exhibition Glenn Sujo: Lifelines
Griffiths Theatre, University of Surrey, Guildford, 25 November 2013

Lifelines
Convenor, two‐day intensive workshop celebrating the vitality, power and resilience of drawn marks in response to the lithe human figure. In collaboration with the National Resource Centre for Dance Archive, Ivy Arts Centre and Lewis Elton Gallery
University of Surrey, 7–8 December 2013

2011

Wingate Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Courtauld Institute of Art 

The Sketchbooks of Jankel Alder: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné 
Presented by Liane Aukin and David Aukin to Tate Gallery, November 2012. 
Find out more HERE.

Creative Collaborations: Zoran Music and Ida Barbarigo
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 21 May 2011

2010

mind-spirit-body-matter: drawn to the human
Convenor and organiser, intensive week-long residential workshop and conference.
Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, 28 June – 2 July 2010

Yehuda Bacon: Disseminating Memory, Lines Across an Abyss, Spring, 2010 (3 Vols.), PhD Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Dr. Shulamith Behr, Supervisor.

2009

The sketchbooks of Jankel Adler: paths to modernity
Lecture delivered on the occasion of ‘Exiled Artists and their Archives: Naum Gabo & His Contemporaries’. Tate Britain, London, 30 November 2009

Muselmann at the Crucible
Concentrationary Memories: The Politics of Representation 1945–85, lecture, contributor, CentreCATH and CFFCS, Leeds University, 23 March 2009

2008

Internment, Memory, Extremity
Seminar, Courtauld Institute of Art, Research Forum, 12 May 2008

Yehuda Bacon & Holocaust Historiography
Lecture, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 31 January 2008

2006

Lines of Enquiry: Thinking through Drawing
Workshop convenor with Robert Egan, Ove Arup Partners
Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, 5 August 2006

Giorgio Morandi: Legacy or Dénouement, a Paradigm
Lecture, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 10 June 2006

Drawing Moirés – Extending Metaphors of the Mark
Lecture, Northumbria University Art Gallery, Newcastle

In Appreciation: Avigdor Arikha, Then & Now
Lecture, The British Museum, London, 8 November 2006

Avigdor Arikha
Print Quarterly, XXIV, no. 3, 2007

The International Drawing Symposium (2006, 2005, 2003)
Convenor and organiser. Three intensive week-long workshops and symposia, Prince’s Drawing School, London. Contributors included: Dennis Creffield, Ansel Krut, Christopher Le Brun, Deanna Petherbridge, Paula Rego, Dilip Sur, Bill Woodrow.

2005

All the Bones in the Valley
Lecture, Prince’s Drawing School; Camberwell College of Arts

2003

Beyond Camps and Forced Labour
Contributor, three-day international conference
Imperial War Museum, London, 29–31 January 2003

‘The Drawings of Hellmut Bachrach-Barée: Chronology of a Death March’
in Last Expressions: Art from Auschwitz (ed. David Mickenberg, Corinne Granof, Peter Hayes), Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago; Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 27 September 2002 – 15 June 2003

2002

Constructing Jewish Narratives in Jewish Museums
Panellist, discussion chaired by Gabriel Josipovici, author; with Inka Bertz, Jewish Museum, Berlin; Bernhardt Purin, Jewish Museum, Fürt; The Goethe Institute, London

Hannah Arendt: Politics & Responsibility
Contributor, one-day conference organised by The Wiener Library in association with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 10 November 2002

2001

Legacies of Silence, The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory
Curator, author and selector of the book and exhibition
Imperial War Museum, London, 5 April – 27 August 2001

The Art of Internment
A series of gallery talks and broadcasts relating to the themes of the exhibition ‘Legacies of Silence, The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory’ in association with University College London, Leeds University, Leo Baeck College, Wiener Library.