Ultan Guilfoyle is a film producer, director, curator, and writer whose films have appeared on HBO, Bravo, and PBS in the United States, and the BBC and Channel 4 in Britain. While at the BBC, he produced music and arts programs, including The Whistle Test and Live Aid. In 2001 he produced the film 1071 Fifth Avenue for ITV's The South Bank Show with creative partner Bob Geldof. Working with the late director Sydney Pollack, Guilfoyle's film Sketches of Frank Gehry was an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival and was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics.
Guilfoyle has made films with architects Renzo Piano, Annabelle Selldorf, and Japanese Pritzker Prize winning firm SANAA, as well as Frank Gehry, with whom he has worked for more than twenty-five years. Guilfoyle was the founding director of the Film Department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he later cocurated the landmark exhibition The Art of the Motorcycle. In 2021 Guilfoyle cocurated the exhibition The Motorcycle : Design, Art, Desire for QAGOMA in Brisbane, Australia.
His writing has appeared in international publications including the New York Times, the Independent, and Design magazine. This is Guilfoyle's fourth book for Phaidon Press.
Ultan Guilfoyle is a film producer, director, curator, and writer whose films have appeared on HBO, Bravo, and PBS in the United States, and the BBC and Channel 4 in Britain. While at the BBC, he produced music and arts programs, including The Whistle Test and Live Aid. In 2001 he produced the film 1071 Fifth Avenue for ITV's The South Bank Show with creative partner Bob Geldof. Working with the late director Sydney Pollack, Guilfoyle's film Sketches of Frank Gehry was an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival and was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics.
Guilfoyle has made films with architects Renzo Piano, Annabelle Selldorf, and Japanese Pritzker Prize winning firm SANAA, as well as Frank Gehry, with whom he has worked for more than twenty-five years. Guilfoyle was the founding director of the Film Department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he later cocurated the landmark exhibition The Art of the Motorcycle. In 2021 Guilfoyle cocurated the exhibition The Motorcycle : Design, Art, Desire for QAGOMA in Brisbane, Australia.
His writing has appeared in international publications including the New York Times, the Independent, and Design magazine. This is Guilfoyle's fourth book for Phaidon Press.