Jonathan Watkins (UK)

Jonathan Watkins has been Director of Ikon Gallery since 1999. Previously he worked for a number of years in London, as Curator of the Serpentine Gallery (1995-1997) and Director of Chisenhale Gallery (1990-1995).

Jonathan Watkins was Artistic Director of the Biennale of Sydney 1998.   He was guest curator for Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (1999-2000), Europarte La Biennale di Venezia (June 1997), Milano Europa 2000, Palazzo di Triennale, Milan (November 2000), Facts of Life an exhibition of contemporary Japanese art at the Hayward Gallery, London (Autumn 2001), and Days Like These, the Tate Triennial exhibition of contemporary British art (London 2003).  He was on the curatorial team for the Shanghai Biennale (September 2006), Sharjah Biennial (April 2007) and Palestinian Biennial (Dec 2007). He is co-curator, with Huang Du, for Documents II (Today Art Museum, Beijing, September 2010). He has written extensively on contemporary art. Recent essays by him have   focused on the work of Giuseppe Penone, Martin Creed, Semyon Faibisovich, Yang Zhenzhong, Noguchi Rika, Caro Niederer and Cornelia Parker. He was the author of the Phaidon monograph on Japanese artist On Kawara.