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Director, Serpentine Gallery
 
Peyton-Jones has been director of the Serpentine Gallery in London since 1991. Credited with the huge success of the gallery over the last 20 years, she is one of the most influential people in the contemporary art world. A trained fine artist (at the Royal College of Art), she was a curator of the Hayward Gallery before her appointment to the Serpentine. She was awarded an OBE in 2003.

The Serpentine Gallery
The Serpentine Gallery is one of London’s most distinctive contemporary art spaces. It was established in 1970 and housed in a classical tea pavilion in Kensington Gardens, beside the lake from which it takes its name. The gallery was originally only open in the summer months, but was transformed under Julia Peyton-Jones’s directorship into one of the most important contemporary art spaces in the capital, open year round to 750,000 visitors and showing works from Man Ray, Henry Moore, Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, among others.