Director Tate
Nicholas Serota has been Director of the Tate Gallery since 1988. He was previously Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery and of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, having worked at the Arts Council as an exhibition organiser. He has selected many exhibitions including A New Spirit in Painting at the Royal Academy in 1981 and his Walter Neurath Lecture Interpretation or Experience: The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art was published in 1997.
Nicholas Serota has been a member of the Visual Arts Advisory Committee of the British Council, a Trustee of the Architecture Foundation and is currently a commissioner on the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. He was knighted in 1999.
He is married to Teresa Gleadowe, formerly Assistant Director of Visual Arts at the British Council and Head of Information at the Tate Gallery. Since 1992 she has been Director of the MA Course Curating and Visual Arts Administration at the Royal College of Art. He has two daughters and two step-daughters.
