Riann Coulter is a curator and art historian whose research focuses on identity in Irish and Northern Irish art. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin (BA) and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (MA, PhD), she has taught art history at TCD and has been awarded post-doctoral fellowships by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and the Irish Research Council.
Dr Coulter has curated and co-curated over 40 exhibitions for institutions including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ulster Museum, National Gallery of Ireland and the F. E. McWilliam Gallery, Co. Down where she has been curator since 2009. She is co-editor with Roisin Kennedy of Censoring Art: Silencing the Art Work (London, 2018) and has contributed to numerous publications including, Familiar but Unknown: Irish Women Artists (Dublin, 2010), The Art and Architecture of Ireland (Dublin, 2014), Sources in Irish Art 2 (Cork, 2021) and Irish Art 1920 – 2020: Perspectives on Change (Dublin, 2022).
