Christina Kennedy is Senior Curator: Head of Collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) since 2007. Previously she was Head of Exhibitions at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
She has been Lead Curator of IMMA Collection: Freud Project, 2016-2021 with its programme of exhibitions and projects including: Chantal Joffe The Painter's Mother: Lucie and Daryll in the context of the IMMA Collection: Freud Project, 2021; Life Above Everything: Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats co-curated with David Dawson, 2019-2020; co-curator with Catherine Lampert for IMMA of Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance 2020 (organised by MK Gallery UK and SNGMA.
As well as overseeing programming of the IMMA Collection, she has curated and co-curated many exhibitions, edited publications and contributed texts to numerous catalogues including: (forthcoming) 'The Edge of Familiarity: Lucian Freud Abroad', National Gallery London, 2022-23.
IMMA Collection: Freud Project, 2016; Life Above Everything: Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats, 2019; Patrick Scott: Image, Space, Light, IMMA 2014; Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art & Francis Bacon's Studio, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, co-curator, 2013; Art as Argument : Brian O'Doherty and the Novak O'Doherty Collection, Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, 2013; Hello Sam by Brian O'Doherty, National Gallery of Ireland as part of Dublin Contemporary, 2011; Postwar American Art: the Novak/O'Doherty Collection, IMMA 2010; The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from 1900s - 1970s, co-curated with Enrique Juncosa, IMMA, 2010-2011; The Burial of Patrick Ireland, IMMA, 2008; Beyond the White Cube: A Retrospective of Brian O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland, co-curated with Barbara Dawson, Hugh Lane Gallery, 2006; The Studio, Hugh Lane Gallery, co-curated with Jens Hoffmann, 2007; Tacita Dean, Hugh Lane Gallery, 2007.