Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex, Fellow of the British Academy, former trustee of Tate and of the National Gallery, Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy and was appointed CBE in 2013 for her services to higher education. She has curated or co-curated many exhibitions in the UK and internationally over the past forty years, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978); Art in Latin America (1989); the Salvador Dalí centenary at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2004); Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents, (with Simon Baker) Hayward Gallery (2006); The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art, at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2011), and Dalí/Duchamp (with William Jeffett) at the Royal Academy (2017). She was Associate Curator for Manifesta 9 (2012). Apart from the catalogues of these and other exhibitions, publications include Photomontage (1976, revised 1986 and 2022), Marcel Duchamp (with Cox & Hopkins, 1999 and 2022) and Selected Writings on Art and Anti-Art (2015). Research and writing on Dada and Surrealism has focused increasingly on the women artists and poets associated with these movements, with publications on Hannah Höch, Mina Loy, Maria Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun.