Sir Nicholas Serota | |
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_crop.jpg) Serota in 2006 | |
| 8th Director of the Tate | |
| In office 1988–2017 | |
| Preceded by | Alan Bowness |
| Succeeded by | Maria Balshaw |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nicholas Andrew Serota 27 April 1946[1] Hampstead, London, England[2] |
| Spouse(s) | Angela Beveridge (m. 1973; div. 1995); Teresa Gleadowe (m. 1997), now Lady Serota |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent | The Baroness Serota |
| Education | Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree |
| Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge; Courtauld Institute of Art |
| Awards | Knight Bachelor (1999) Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (2013) |
Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota CH (born 27 April 1946) is a British art historian and curator. He has been chairman of Arts Council England since February 2017.[3][4][5]
Serota was director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, then director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London,[6] and then director of the Tate from 1988 to 2017. He was also chairman of the Turner Prize jury until 2007.[7]
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- ^ "Is the new Whitechapel gallery a modern masterpiece?". The Independent. London, UK. 3 April 2009. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022.
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