Laurence Gateau 

Laurence Gateau has been Director of FRAC Pays-de-la-Loire since 2005, where she has curated exhibitions by artists including Thomas Huber, Fabrice Hyber, Monica Bonvicini, Gina Pane, Tatiana Trouvé, Martin Boyce, Jand Marc Camille Chaimowicz. (The French Regional Contemporary Art Funds (FRAC) are public collections that were created in 1982 to disseminate contemporary art within each region of France.) From 2000 to 2004, Gateau directed Villa Arson Nice where she curated numerous exhibitions of senior international artists including Gary Hill, Mona Hatom, Paul McCarthy Mark Lewis and Fiona Tan, with a special survey exhibition on Chinese artists in 2004.