Marie-Anne McQuay is Guest Curator of Liverpool Biennial 2025 and is based in Liverpool, UK.
She is currently part of the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions Committee 2022-25; Jury Panel for Arts Foundation Awards Futures (Visual Art) 2025; Advisory Board Member, At The Library, Sefton and External Examiner for Art Museum and Gallery Studies MA, University of Leicester 2023-26.
She is on secondment from Arts&Heritage (A&H) as Director of Projects and was previously Head of Programme at the Bluecoat, Liverpool (2015 – June 2022) where she curated exhibitions and commissions by Larissa Sansour, Adham Faramawy, Suki Chan, Jade Montserrat, Serena Korda, Jonathan Baldock, Elaine Mitchener, Frances Disley, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Sumuyya Khader, Frances Disley and Grace Ndiritu.
She was Guest International Curator for Wales in Venice 2019 with artist Sean Edwards (Turner Bursary 2020) and Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham. Previously Marie-Anne was Curator at Spike Island, Bristol (2007-2014), working with artists including Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Can Altay, Sonia Boyce, Cevdet Erek, Haroon Mirza, Cezary Bodzianowski, Melissa Gordon, Sean Edwards, Uriel Orlow and Jesse Jones.