Dawn Ades (England, 1943) is an emeritus professor of History and Art Theory at the University of Essex. Previously, she was director of the Research Center for Surrealism Studies and its Legacies of the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) and co-director of the Latin American Art Collection at the University of Essex. She has numerous publications on Dadaism, Surrealism and Latin American art. She has been curator of some outstanding exhibitions, among them: Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978, Arts Council of Great Britain); Art in Latin America: The Modern Era 1820 - 1980 (1989, Hayward Gallery, London, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Reina Sofia, Madrid); Salvador Dalí: The Early Years (1994, Hayward Gallery, London); Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire (1995, Hayward Gallery, London, Barcelona and Berlin); Francis Bacon and Dada and Surrealism at the Sao Paulo Biennial, 1998; Salvador Dalí (2004, Palazzo Grassi, Venice and Philadelphia Museum of Art); and The Surrealist Revolution in Art, at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2011). In 2012 she was the associate curator of Manifesta 9. Dawn is partially retired, but continues supervising her doctoral students.