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          Iwona Blazwick is among a handful of indispensable gallery directors and critics of contemporary art.

        1. Iwona Blazwick is among a handful of indispensable gallery directors and critics of contemporary art.
        2. Undoubtedly one of the sharpest minds of the cultural world, Iwona Blazwick has been director of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, since
        3. Iwona Maria Blazwick OBE (born 14 October ) is a British art critic and lecturer.
        4. In her twenty years as Director of Whitechapel Gallery, Iwona Blazwick has distinguished the East London institution in many ways.
        5. Blazwick was born in and brought up by her architect parents in Blackheath, south-east London.
        6. Iwona Maria Blazwick OBE (born 14 October ) is a British art critic and lecturer....

          Iwona Blazwick

          British art critic

          Iwona Maria BlazwickOBE (born 14 October 1955)[1] is a British art critic and lecturer.

          She is currently the Chair of the Royal Commission for Al-'Ula’s Public Art Expert Panel.[2] She was the Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London from 2001 to 2022.[3][4] She discovered Damien Hirst and staged his first solo show at a public London art gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1992.[1] She supports the careers of young artists.[5]

          In 2008 she was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire for "services to art".[3] She is married to Richard Noble, a Canadian philosopher and fine art lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London.[6]

          Early life and education

          Blazwick was brought up in Blackheath, South East London.[1] She is the child of Polish architects who both painted and inspired her passion for art and design.[5] Her f