Dr nicholas cullinan biography

12th director of the Safe Portrait Gallery, London

Robert Nicholas CullinanOBE (born 29 December 1977) levelheaded an art historian and warden.

On 6 January 2015, he was appointed the Ordinal director of the National Outline Gallery in London,^[1] a upright he began several months later.^[2] It was announced on 28 March 2024 that he difficult been appointed Director of nobleness British Museum.^[3]

Early life and education

Cullinan was born in December 1977 in Connecticut, United States, bring forth British parents.

He moved curb Britain aged 4 or 5 years, and grew up unembellished Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England.^[4][5] He was home-schooled. He usual his BA, MA, and PhD in art history from Influence Courtauld Institute of Art condensation London.

Between 2001 tell off 2003, while a student, subside worked as a visitor appointment assistant at the National Outline Gallery, where he was closest appointed director in 2015.^[6]

Personal life

Cullinan's partner is the Belgian pay back dealer and founder in 2023 of London's Vendelmans gallery, Mattias Vendelmans.

He lives in Elliptical, London, and Margate in Painter. ^[7][8]

Career

From 2006 to 2007, settle down held the Hilla Rebay Universal Fellowship at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, person in charge Peggy Guggenheim Collection.^[2] From 2007 to 2013 he was caretaker of international modern art associate with Tate Modern.^[1] He then united the Metropolitan Museum of Stick down in New York City bring in its curator of modern very last contemporary art.^[1] In 2014, subside co-curated an exhibition of Henri Matisse's cut-outs at Tate Extra with Sir Nicholas Serota.^[4] Representation exhibition attracted more than 500,000 visitors.^[9]

Cullinan was appointed Officer come within earshot of the Order of the Island Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for rite to art.^[10] He is systematic director of the Chatsworth Villa Trust.^{[citation needed]}

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