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Nicholas Serota

The Honourable
Sir Nicholas Serota
CH
Serota in 2006
Senior Independent Director of the BBC
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born
Nicholas Andrew Serota

(1946-04-27) 27 April 1946 (age 78)[1]
Hampstead, London, England[2]
Spouse(s)Angela Beveridge (m. 1973; div. 1995);
Teresa Gleadowe (m. 1997), now Lady Serota
Children2
ParentThe Baroness Serota
EducationHaberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge;
Courtauld Institute of Art
AwardsKnight Bachelor (1999)
Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (2013)

The Hon. Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota CH (born 27 April 1946) is a British art historian and curator.

Director of the Tate from 1988 to 2017, Serota is currently Chairman of Arts Council England, a role which he has held since February 2017.[3][4][5]

Serota was previously Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London,[6] before becoming Director of the Tate in 1988. He was also Chairman of the Turner Prize jury until 2007.[7]

  1. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3570. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "National Council Members". Arts Council England. Accessed 9 October 2017
  5. ^ Brown, Mark (8 September 2016). "Sir Nicholas Serota appointed chairman of Arts Council England". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Is the new Whitechapel gallery a modern masterpiece?". The Independent. London, UK. 3 April 2009. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022.
  7. ^ Wroe, Nicholas (22 April 2000). "The hanging judge". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

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