Elizabeth Cumming is a graduate of Edinburgh University and a former keeper of the City Art Centre, Edinburgh. During the 1990s she taught design history at Edinburgh College of Art, while continuing to pursue freelance curatorship internationally. Her exhibitions have included Glasgow 1900: Art & Design at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam in 1992. Since 2000, when appointed an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow University, she has worked as an independent art and design historian.
In 2020 Cumming was appointed an Honorary Professor of Art at the University of Edinburgh.








