Iwona Blazwick OBE (b. 1955) is director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Until 2001, she was head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern, where she was responsible for co-curating the installation of the collection and formulating the exhibitions programme. One of her first responsibilities at the Whitechapel Gallery was to sign the expansion programme contract.
Iwona Blaszczyk (Blazwick later Anglicized her surname, which is of Pol...
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Iwona Blazwick OBE (b. 1955) is director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Until 2001, she was head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern, where she was responsible for co-curating the installation of the collection and formulating the exhibitions programme. One of her first responsibilities at the Whitechapel Gallery was to sign the expansion programme contract.
Iwona Blaszczyk (Blazwick later Anglicized her surname, which is of Polish origin), was brought up by her architect parents in Blackheath, south-east London. She read English and Fine Art at Exeter university before becoming a junior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, under the tutelage of Sandy Nairne, who is now director of the National Portrait Gallery. Her first show, Objects and Sculpture (1981), included work by Bill Woodrow, Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley.
From 1993 to 1997, Blazwick worked as an independent curator for museums and major public arts projects in Europe and Japan...
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