Maria Balshaw

Maria Jane Balshaw CBE (born January 24, 1970 in Birmingham ) is a British museum director. She has headed Tate Britain in London since 2017 .

Life

Balshaw grew up in Leicester and Northampton and studied English and cultural studies at the University of Liverpool (BA 1991) and an MA in 1992 from the University of Sussex . She received her PhD in African American Visual and Literary Culture in 1996. She has worked as a cultural studies lecturer at University College Northampton since 1993 . In 1997 she became an assistant at the University of Birmingham .

Balshaw started working in regional cultural management in the Midlands in 2002 . In 2006 she became director of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester . In 2011 she also took over the management of the Manchester Art Gallery and the Gallery of Costume, and was thus responsible for collections with a total of more than 80,000 objects. She became City Councilor for Culture in the City of Manchester. In 2014 she became a member of the Arts Council . During her term of office, the structural expansion of the Whitworth Art Gallery falls in 2015. In the same year, Balshaw was accepted into the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

In June 2017 she succeeded Nicholas Serota as Director of Tate Britain .

Fonts (selection)

• Looking for Harlem: urban aesthetics in African-American literature . London:: Pluto Press, 2001
• Exhibition catalogs

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Balshaw in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Maria Balshaw in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Javier Pes; Ben Luke: In her own words: Maria Balshaw, new director of Tate , the art newspaper, January 17, 2017
• Director, Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries , at museumnext

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maria Balshaw appointed to the Board of Arts Council England , at uk, April 3, 2014