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Catherine Petitgas / Art Collector

Catherine Petitgas is a London-based collector, patron and art historian. She collects modern and contemporary art, mostly from Latin America. She holds a Masters in the History of Modern Art from the Courtauld Institute, London. She is a Trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery, of Gasworks/Triangle Network and chairs the Franco-British initiate Fluxus Art Projects. She is also a member of the Tate Latin American Acquisitions Committee, the Executive Committee of the Tate International Council, the Council of the Serpentine Gallery and the International Council of the Centre Pompidou. She was Executive Editor of 'Contemporary Art Brazil' (2012), 'Contemporary Art Mexico' (2014) both published by Thames and Hudson, and is  currently working on 'Contemporary Art Colombia'. She curated 'Everything you are I am not', a selection of Latin American contemporary art from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Miami, December 2015.