Elena Ochoa, Lady Foster Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lady Foster
Birth Name:Elena Fernández-Ferreiro López de Ochoa
Birth Date:1958 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Ourense, Spain
Occupation:publisher, curator, professor
Spouse:Norman Foster (m. 1996)

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

Life

Elena Ochoa Foster was a tenured professor of psychopathology at the Complutense University of Madrid for almost two decades.[1] She was honorary professor at King's College London until 2001.[1] She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake postdoctoral studies at the University of Illinois Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

In 1996, in London, she founded Ivorypress, a private organisation that undertakes publishing and curatorial activities.[2] Their premises include an art gallery, a publishing house and a bookshop focusing on photography, architecture and contemporary art. She remains its chief executive officer.

She 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).[3]

From 2021 to 2022, to mark the occasion of Ivorypress' twenty-fifth anniversary, she curated a multi-institutional exhibitions programme[4] involving museums and libraries across Europe and the United States.

Elena Ochoa served on the jury of the Princess of Asturias Awards for its Communication and Humanities category from 2008 to 2010 and served on its Arts category jury from 2013 to 2017.[5] She is a member of MoMA's Library Council and serves on the advisory board of the Prix Pictet photography award.[6] [7] As a patron, she supports a variety of museums and foundations including the Museo del Prado, alongside several international schools of contemporary art and photography, such as Spain's Academy of the Arts and the Cinematographic Sciences. She has served as Chair of the Tate Galleries International Council and as Trustee of the Tate Foundation as well as the Isamu Noguchi Foundation.[8]

She serves as part of the board of trustees of the Serpentine Gallery (London, UK) [9] as well as being the chair of its International Council since 2017.[10] Since 2016, she has served as a correspondent academician in Switzerland for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid, Spain).[11] She has also been a Member of the Organising Committee of the Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design (St. Petersburg, Russia) since 2021.[12] Elena Ochoa Foster is vice president and trustee of the Norman Foster Foundation in London and Madrid. She is also part of the board of directors of the American Friends of the Norman Foster Foundation.[10]

Recognition and awards

Academic and media career

Film producer career

How much does your building weigh, Mr. Foster?:[14]

Shooting the Mafia:[15]

Publisher and Curator career

Source:[16]

Personal life

In 1996 she married the English architect Norman Foster. In 1999 he was raised to the peerage giving her the title Lady Foster of Thames Bank.[17] [18]

She lives and works between Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.[19]

General references

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elena Ochoa Galegos Gallegos .
  2. Web site: OCHOA Sobre Arquitectura y más Desde 1998 .
  3. Web site: Curatorial Projects .
  4. Web site: Exhibition Programme - Looking Forward. Ivorypress at Twenty-Five. 9 March 2021. Ivorypress.
  5. https://www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticia/cultura/2017/05/04/elena-ochoa/00031493840129077192999.htm
  6. https://ivorypress.com/en/elena-foster-y-ivorypress-en-el-museo-de-arte-moderno-de-nueva-york/
  7. https://onthe50road.com/elena-ochoa-foster-el-arte-de-reconvertirse/
  8. https://www.metalocus.es/es/autor/ochoa
  9. Web site: Support .
  10. Web site: Home .
  11. Web site: 7. Elena ochoa . 3 December 2020 .
  12. Web site: Sir Norman Foster and Elena Ochoa Foster supported the Golden Trezzini Awards . 7 September 2021 .
  13. https://es.fashionnetwork.com/news/Elena-ochoa-y-david-delfin-de-de-par-en-par-,168590.html#tg-botanical
  14. Web site: How much does your building weigh Mr. Foster? .
  15. Web site: Disparando a la mafia .
  16. Web site: Elena Ochoa Foster. Comisario, Galerista/Marchante, Coleccionista .
  17. News: Louise. Carpenter. 2018-07-06. Why Elena Ochoa won't let marriage to Norman Foster slow her down. The Times. 1 October 2011. 0140-0460.
  18. Web site: 12 April 2021. Elena Ochoa Foster — 'I am an agitator, to push the artist to go to their limit'. ft.com. 30 April 2021.
  19. Web site: La vida de Norman Foster y Elena Ochoa en Londres: Cultura y lujo entre 'celebrities' . 8 November 2021 .

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