Richard Hylton

Richard Hylton is a curator and a writer of art criticism. Over the past sixteen years, he has worked as a curator in various organisations including Oldham Art Gallery at the University of Bradford, Autograph and presently Unit 2 Gallery at the London Metropolitan University.

His curatorial projects include: Shifting Borders (1992), Tampered Surface – Six Artists From Pakistan (co-curated by Alnoor Mitha, 1995), Imagined Communities (1996) and Landscape Trauma in the Age of Scopophilia (2000). His most recent publication is The Nature of The Beast (2007), which sets out to explore the impact that cultural diversity policies and initiatives, within the publicly funded arts sector, have had on Black visual arts activity in England over the past four decades.