Vincent Honoré (1975-2023) was a curator and writer, and the director of exhibitions at MO.CO Montpelier, France. Early in his career, he was a curator at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2001-2004), and later moved to join the curatorial team of Tate Modern (2004-2007). At Tate, he developed exhibitions and projects with Carol Bove, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jeff Wall, Louise Bourgeois, Hans Haacke, and Catherine Sullivan, among others. In 2008, he became the founding director and chief curator of DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation), still in London. He conceived of DRAF as a factory of prototypes structured around research, production, and performativity, where he curated solo exhibitions of Oscar Tuazon, Keren Cytter, Neil Beloufa and Rosemarie Trockel, as well as performances and live events by Pierre Huyghe, Laure Prouvost, Rodney Graham, Sarah Lucas and John Bock. In 2011, Honoré co-founded Drawing Room Confessions, a series of books dedicated to one artist per issue, based on conversations and words only.Following his time at DRAF, he became senior curator at the Hayward Gallery, where he curated important exhibitions questioning gender, among others, including "Drag: Self Portrait and Body Politics" (2018) and "Kiss My Genders" (2019). He helped founding MO.CO Moontpelier in France in 2019, and served as its director of exhibtions.
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