Sandy Nairne

Director, National Portrait Gallery

Sandy Nairne took up the post of Director of the National Portrait Gallery in November 2002. He was previously Director: Programmes at Tate and has spent the past eight years working alongside Nicholas Serota in the building of Tate Modern and the Centenary Development at Tate Britain. He has also been directly responsible for the development of international and digital programmes, the Tate Partnership Scheme and the co-ordination of Tate public programmes as a whole. He has worked previously as Assistant Director at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Director of Exhibitions, ICA and Director of Visual Arts for the Arts Council of Great Britain. He has worked as a curator and writer and is well known for his television series and book State of the Art (1987), and co-edited anthology Thinking About Exhibitions (1996).