Jonathan Watkins

Jonathan Watkins (born 1957) is an English curator, and is currently Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.

Watkins emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969 and studied Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Sydney. He is the older brother of Philip Watkins, renowned artist and musician. He was curator at the Chisenhale Gallery in London in the early 1990s. Watkins later moved to the Serpentine Gallery,1995 to 1997, and worked in a freelance capacity as curator of the Biennale of Sydney, 1998.^[1]

In 1999, Watkins was appointed to his current role as Director of the Ikon Gallery, and has also worked as a guest curator at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, the Venice Biennale in Italy, the Hayward Gallery in London and Tate in London.^[2]

References

^ Grimley, Terry (1999-07-20). "When art is just an everyday happening - Terry Grimley meets the new director of Birmingham's Ikon Gallery". Birmingham Post (Mirror Regional Newspapers): p. 15.
^ {{cite web|url=http://www.oca.no/norway/ivp_upcoming.shtml|title=Upcoming visitors - Jonathan Watkins - April 2008|accessdate=2008-03-24|work=Programmes in Norway|publisher=Office for Contemporary Art Norway}}

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