Sir Nicholas Serota
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Sir Nicholas Serota CH |
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Serota in 2006
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| 8th Director of the Tate | |
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Assumed office 1988 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Alan Bowness |
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Nicholas Andrew Serota 27 April 1946 |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Parents | Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota |
| Education | Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
| Alma mater |
Christ's College, Cambridge Courtauld Institute of Art |
| Awards |
Knight Bachelor (1999) Companion of Honour (2013) |
Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota, CH (born 27 April 1946) is director of the Tate art museums and galleries. He was director of The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and the Whitechapel Gallery, London, before becoming in 1988 director of the Tate, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. He has been announced as the new Chair of Arts Council England in September 2016. He has been the chairman of the Turner Prize jury.
Nicholas Serota, the son of Stanley Serota, a Fellow, Institution of Civil Engineers, and Beatrice Serota (later Baroness Serota), grew up in Hampstead, North London. His father was a civil engineer and his mother a civil servant, later a life peer and Labour Minister for Health in Harold Wilson's government and local government ombudsman. Serota was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School (where he was appointed School Captain) and then read Economics at Christ's College, Cambridge (University of Cambridge), before switching to History of Art. He completed a master's degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, under the supervision of Michael Kitson and Anita Brookner; his thesis was on the work of J. M. W. Turner.
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