The Artist Prize

Independent writer, curator and founder of A Black History of Art. Author of Reframing Blackness ) and host of the A Shared Gaze podcast.

Head of Programmes at arebyte and Co-Founder of Off Site Project. Former Curator of Digital Art at the V&A and co-editor of Digital Art: 1960s–Now.

Director of Tate from 2017 to 2026, the first woman to lead the institution. Curator, writer and author of Gathering of Strangers: Why Museums Matter (Tate, 2024)

Writer and broadcaster on contemporary art, Contributing Editor and London Contemporary Art Correspondent for The Art Newspaper.

Founding Director of The Common Guild, Glasgow (2007–2026). Trustee of Art Fund and former judge of the Turner Prize and Art Fund’s Museum of the Year.

Turner Prize-winning artist (2004) who represented Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Most recently presented The Triumph of Art

Director and CEO of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Former Director of Towner Eastbourne, where the gallery won Art Fund Museum of the Year (2020)

Art critic, writer and curator, and visual arts editor at Londonist. Trustee of City & Guilds of London Art School and Discerning Eye.

Director of The Whitworth and Professor of Curatorial Practices at the University of Manchester. Former Senior Curator at Tate Modern.

CEO of a-n, the UK’s largest visual arts membership organisation. Over 20 years of director-level experience including Liverpool Biennial, Arts Council England, and Creative Australia.

Director of Firstsite and Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 winner. Former Head of Programme at Modern Art Oxford. Awarded MBE for services to the arts.