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Emmanuel Guigon, (Besançon,1959), is a museologist, holds a doctorate in art history and is the current director of the Museu Picasso de Barcelona. He holds dual French-Swiss nationality. Guigon earned his doctorate in contemporary art at the Paris-Sorbonne University (France), and is a specialist in historical avant-gardes, surrealism, modern Spanish art and European post-war art. Before becoming the director of the Picasso Museum Barcelona, he was deputy director of museums in the French city of Besançon. Prior to that, he was director and head curator at the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France) and head curator at the Valencia Institute of Modern Art (IVAM).

He was a member of the Science Section at the École Pratique des Hautes Études Hispaniques Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, having previously lectured in contemporary art history at the Université de Franche-Comté (UFR) between 1985 and 1987. He is an associate member of numerous organisations, including the Training and Research Unit (UFR) of Iberian and Latin-American Studies at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University; the André Chastel Centre, Laboratoire de Recherche en Histoire de l’Art; AICA France (International Association of Art Critics); the Technical Committee of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Alsace; and the Board of Directors of the Société des Amis de Paul Éluard. He was named Knight in the Order of Academic Palms and Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture of the French government.

Curatorships
He has curated numerous exhibitions, among which some of the most notable are:
 * Monographic exhibitions (modern art)
 * Georg Grosz i Otto Dix (Besançon, 2014)
 * Grete Stern (Besançon, 2009)
 * Jean Arp (Art is Arp, Estrasburg, 2007)
 * John Heartfield (Photomontages politiques, Estrasburg, 2006)
 * Konrad Klapheck (Estrasburg, Madrid, 2005)
 * Antonio Saura (Las crucifixiones, Estrasburg, Cracòvia, Linz, Estocolm, Amsterdam, 2002-2004)
 * Joaquín Torres García (Estrasburg, Madrid, Barcelona, 2002-2003)
 * Zao Wou-Ki (València, Brussel·les, 2001)
 * Julio González (Sevilla, 2000)
 * Paul Klee (València, Madrid, 1998)
 * Monographic exhibitions (contemporary art)
 * Nicolas Nixon (Les Sœurs Brown, Besançon, 2015)
 * Bernard Plossu (Les voyages mexicains, Besançon, 2012)
 * Miroslav Balka (Bon voyage, Estrasburg, 2004)
 * Michel Journiac (Estrasburg, 2004)
 * Marco Bagnoli (València, 2000)
 * Aurélie Nemours (València, 1999)
 * Hervé Télémaque (València, 1998)
 * Thematic exhibitions
 * Objets mathématiques (Besançon, 2014)
 * Bijoux d'artistes (Besançon, París, 2012-2014)
 * Grandville, un autre monde, un autre temps (Besançon, 2012)
 * Le Corbusier expose (Besançon, Las Palmas, 2011)
 * Charles Fourier, l'écart absolu (Besançon, 2010)
 * L'œil-moteur: art optique et art cinétique (Estrasburg, Palma de Mallorca, Lisboa, 2005)
 * Alfred Jarry, de la pintura a la patafísica (València, 2001)
 * Lajos Kassák y la vanguardia húngara (València, 1999)
 * Dau al Set, el foc s'escampa. Barcelona, 1948-1952 (Barcelona, 1998 i 1999)
 * El surrealismo y la guerra civil española (Terol, 1998)
 * El Objeto surrealista (València, 1997)
 * Gaceta de Arte y su época (1932-1936) (Las Palmas, Madrid, 1997)
 * Infancia del arte. Arte de los niños y arte moderno en España (Terol, 1996)
 * Mundo de Juan Eduardo Cirlot (València, 1996)
 * Sueño de tinta: Oscar Domínguez y la decalcomanía del deseo (Madrid, Las Palmas, 1993)
 * Automatismos paralelos. La Europa de los movimientos experimentales, 1944-1956 (Madrid, Las Palmas, 1992)

Publications

 * Revoir Magritte (co-autor amb Bernard Plossu). Wellow Now (2015)
 * Sur l'Object Surrealiste (co–autor amb Georges Sebbag), Les Presses du Réel (2013)
 * Oscar Domínguez. Viceconsejería de Cultura de Canarias (2007)
 * Nostalgia del espacio. Diputación Provincial de Cuenca (2006)
 * L'oeil moteur: Art optique et cinétique 1950-1975. MAM STRASBOURG (2005)
 * El jardín de las cinco lunas: Antonio Saura surrealista. Museo de Teruel (2000)
 * El surrealismo y la guerra civil española. Museo de Teruel (1998)
 * Paul Klee. Generalitat Valenciana (1998)
 * El Objeto Surrealista. Generalitat Valenciana (1997)
 * Historia del collage en España. Museo de Teruel (1995)