Jonathan Watkins

Jonathan Watkins (born 1957) is an English curator, and is currently Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.

Watkins emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969 and studied Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Sydney, where he later taught. He was curator of the Chisenhale Gallery in London during which period this relatively small local gallery became an internationally known centre of excellence - many of the Artists shown at that time later going on to major acclaim including a number of Turner Prize winners, Watkins later moved to the Serpentine Gallery from 1995 to 1997 and worked in a freelance capacity as curator of the Biennale of Sydney in 1998. [cite news|first=Terry|last=Grimley|title=When art is just an everyday happening - Terry Grimley meets the new director of Birmingham's Ikon Gallery|work=Birmingham Post|publisher=Mirror Regional Newspapers|page=15|date=1999-07-20]

In 1999 he was appointed to his current role as Director of the Ikon Gallery, and has since worked as a guest curator at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, the Venice Biennale and the Hayward Gallery and Tate in London. [cite web|url=http://www.oca.no/norway/ivp_upcoming.shtml|title=Upcoming visitors - Jonathan Watkins - April 2008|accessdate=2008-03-24|work=Programmes in Norway|publisher=Office for Contemporary Art Norway]

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