Career
Garb has also written essays about numerous contemporary artists, such as Christian Boltanski, Mona Hatoum, Nancy Spero, and Massimo Vitali. Garb has also organized several art exhibitions, including Reisemalheurs at the Freud Museum in London in 2007 (on South African painter Vivienne Koorland), and Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2011. More recently, she has been researching and publishing on the history of art and photography in post-apartheid South Africa, including curating exhibitions on this subject (including Land Marks/Home Lands: Contemporary Art from South Africa at the Haunch of Venison Gallery in London in 2008).
Garb"s exhibition Figures and Fictions was nominated for a Lucie award in Curating.
Garb attended the Michaelis School of Fine Art, at the University of Cape Town, receiving a Bachelor in Art in 1978. Moving to London soon after, she received her Master of Arts in 1982, and her Doctor of Philosophy in 1991, both in Art History, from the Courtauld Institute of Artist
She worked at the Courtauld as lecturer from 1988 to 1989, and has taught at University College London since 1989, where she was promoted in 2001 to professor In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
