Harry Heuser (PhD, CUNY 2004) is a writer, educator and exhibition curator living in Wales. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Art History and Director of Research at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University, where he worked closely with the School of Art Museum and Galleries collections to generate interdisciplinary research projects and to explore the potentialities of curating as a practice-orientated, public-facing alternative to the traditional delivery of art history. Together with the undergraduate students of his curating module, Heuser staged themed exhibitions drawn exclusively from the School's collections of art and visual/material culture. Examining the 1882 George Powell bequest to Aberystwyth University, Heuser has explored the relationships between private collection and public display, identity and persona, as well as collecting and autobiography. In collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Heuser has co-curated printmaking exhibitions at the RA and co-authored catalogues raisonné/monographs on twentieth-century British printmakers Stanley Anderson and Charles Tunnicliffe. In partnership with provincial museums in the UK, Heuser has created bespoke touring exhibitions reflecting the environments in which works on display were created. In addition, Heuser writes on radio and is a collector of mid-twentieth-century screen, stage and radio-related ephemera, which have also been exhibited at the School of Art.
