Nicholas A. Serota

Serota has served as Director of the Tate since 1988. He was previously Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1973-1976) and the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1976-1988). Serota is credited with the enormous success of the Tate Modern. He inaugurated a program called 'New Displays' in which the central Duveen Galleries were restored and collection works were rotated. The Turner Prize was redefined as a showcase for emerging contemporary art. He was also instrumental in the dramatic expansion of the Tate to encompass four sites - Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. He has written or co-authored numerous exhibition catalogues of modern artists and architects, including Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, Donald Judd, and Max Gordon, and more generally on twentieth-century art.