Alex Farquharson

Alex Farquharson is Director of Tate Britain. Prior to this, he was the executive director of Nottingham Contemporary from 2007 to 2015. Exhibitions he has curated include British Art Show 6 (Gateshead, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol) seen by over 350,000 people, Le Voyage Interieur in Paris and If Everybody Had an Ocean at Tate St Ives and CAPC Bordeaux (TSI’s second most visited exhibition). Prior to Nottingham Contemporary he was Tutor and Research Fellow on the Curating Contemporary Art MA at Royal College of Art in London. He is a widely published author on art – in books, catalogues and magazines. As well as his freelance activity, he has a solid background working in publicly funded art institutions: during the 90s he was Exhibitions Director at Spacex in Exeter and Centre for Visual Arts in Cardiff.