Justin Paton Author & Editor

Justin Paton is head curator of international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. A widely published writer and commentator on the visual arts, his publications include the award-winning How to Look at a Painting (2005) and McCahon Country (2019), as well as many monographs on artists including Jude Rae, Ricky Swallow, Jeffrey Harris and Julia Morison. Paton was recently co-curator of Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou and led the Art Gallery's acclaimed COVID-response digital project Together In Art. He is currently working on the opening program for the Sydney Modern Project, the contemporary expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.