Nicholas Cullinan

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Nicholas Cullinan (born 1977) is an art historian and curator. On 6 January 2015 it was announced that he would be the 12th director of the National Portrait Gallery in London,[1] a post he took up in the spring.[2]

Cullinan was born in Connecticut and raised in Yorkshire.[3] He received his BA, MA and PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In 2001–3, while a student, he worked as a visitor services assistant at the National Portrait Gallery, where he is now director.[4] In 2006–7 he held the Hilla Rebay International Fellowship at the Guggenheim museums in Bilbao, New York and Venice.[2] From 2007 to 2013 he was curator of international modern art at Tate Modern.[1] He then joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as its curator of modern and contemporary art.[1] In 2014 he co-curated an exhibition of Henri Matisse's cut-outs at Tate Modern with Sir Nicholas Serota.[3] The exhibition was the most successful in the gallery's history, attracting more than 500,000 visitors.[5]

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