Nicholas Serota, the outgoing director of Tate, is to be awarded the $25,000 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard).
Serota will be presented with the award at a ceremony in New York City on 3 April. In a press statement, Tom Eccles, Bard’s executive director (and regular ArtReview contributor), commented: “Nick Serota is a towering figure in the world of art and museums. As both a curator and director, he has been a powerful advocate for contemporary art and artists, particularly in Britain where he has tirelessly built one of the great art institutions of our time.”
Serota, 70, steps down at the end of 2016, after 28 years as head of Tate. In February 2017 he takes over the role of chairman at Arts Council England.
Now in its twentieth year, the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence recognises the individual achievements of a leading curator or curators whose contributions have shaped the way exhibition-making is understood today. Past recipients include Harald Szeemann (1998), Marcia Tucker (1999), Okwui Enwezor (2009), Lucy Lippard (2010), Helen Molesworth and Hans Ulrich Obrist (2011) and Thelma Golden (2016).
13 December 2016
