Jonathan Watkins

Curator, Author

1957 –

17

Who is Jonathan Watkins?

Jonathan Watkins is an English curator, and the Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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 worked at the Serpentine Gallery from 1995 to 1997 as the institution's curator, and worked in a curatorial freelance capacity for the Biennale of Sydney in 1998.

In 1999, Watkins was appointed to his current role as Director of the Ikon Gallery, and has also curated projects at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, the Venice Biennale in Italy, the Hayward Gallery in London and Tate in London.

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1957
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  • University of Sydney

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on July 23, 2013

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