David Anfam (born May 12, 1955) is an English art historian, author, and curator most well known for his voluminous writings on abstract expressionism. [1] He is currently the senior consulting curator for The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado and the director of its research center. [2] [3]
Anfam is the author of the catalogue raisonné on the work of Mark Rothko, "Mark Rothko The Works on Canvas" (1998 Yale University Press). [4] Anfam contributes numerous articles and reviews to the Art Newspaper. [5]
He curated Bill Viola's Ocean Without a Shore at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, in the Church of San Gallo, [6] and at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 Jackson Pollock's Mural: Energy Made Visible at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni . [7]