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Elena Ochoa Foster
Professor Dr. Elena Ochoa (Lady Elena Foster of Thames Bank) was a Hispanic/North American Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (USA) and Visiting Research Scholar at the Universities of Cambridge (UK), Chicago (USA), Kraków (Poland), Hamburg (Germany) and Pennsylvania (USA), amongst others.
She was Titular Professor of Psychopathology at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) for almost two decades and has also worked for the Spanish National Television and the Spanish National Radio. For several years, she was a contributor to the newspaper El País. Until 2001, Elena Ochoa Foster was Honorary Professor at King´s College London.
In 1996 she founded the publishing house Ivorypress in London (UK) and the Ivorypress Art+Books in 2008 in Madrid (Spain). She is the director of the CPhoto Project which includes the following publications: C International Photo Magazine (10 volumes published between 2005 and 2010) and CPhoto Collection (10 monographs to be published between 2010 and 2015). She curates exhibitions and supports academic settings to promote photography and contemporary art (such as the Chair on Contemporary Art at Oxford University, organized and sponsored by Ivorypress), among other activities. Elena Ochoa Foster handles personally all the editions of artist´s books as well as other Ivorypress publications.
Together with the Ivorypress Team, she has curated exhibitions such as the Italian Pavilion at the 10th VeniceBiennale (Italy) in 2006; NY CPhoto at Phillips de Pury, New York (USA) in 2007; Blood on Paper at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK) in 2008; Real Venice in 2011, first shown at the Biennale di Venezia and now exhibited in the Somerset House in London. With her team, she is now preparing two major public exhibition on photography for 2012 and 2014.
Currently Elena Ochoa Foster is Trustee of the Mutual Art Trust and member of the Board of several institutions. She also was Chairman of the Tate International Council and trustee of the Tate Foundation from 2004 to 2008, and has been Trustee of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, amongst others.
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