Alyce Mahon is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Modern & Contemporary Art History at the University of Cambridge. She is the curator of Dorothea Tanning: Detrás de la puerta, invisible, otra puerta, the first major retrospective exhibition of the American Surrealist Dorothea Tanning (1901-2012), which is on show at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (Oct. 3, 2018 –Jan. 7, 2019) and tours to the Tate Modern, London (Feb. 27–June 6, 2019). Mahon has served as curatorial advisor on numerous international Surrealist exhibitions - most recently for Leonor Fini: Theatre of Desire 1930-1990, Museum of Sex, New York (Sept. 28, 2018-March 4, 2019).

She is the author of the monographs Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968 (Thames & Hudson, 2005; Spanish translation Surrealismo Eros y Politica, Alianza 2009) and Eroticism & Art (Oxford University Press, 2005) in addition to journal essays on Frida Kahlo, Leonor Fini and Carolee Schneemann and catalogue essays on gender politics in avant-garde art, including Dreamers Awake (White Cube, London, 2017), Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Musée Bourdelle, Paris, 2015), The Institute of Sexology (The Wellcome Trust, London, 2014), Leonora Carrington (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2013) and Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism (City Art Gallery, Manchester, 2009).