Francesco Manacorda is a freelance curator based in London. He has been Artistic Director of V-A-C Foundation (2017–22); Artistic Director of Tate Liverpool (2012–17), Director of Artissima and Curator at Barbican Art Gallery. From 2006 to 2011 he was Visiting Lecturer in Exhibition History and Critical Theory in the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art, London. He has co-curated the 2016 Liverpool Biennial and in 2018 the 11th Taipei Biennial.