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Iwona Blazwick

Iwona Blazwick

Iwona Blazwick (b. 1955) is a British art critic and lecturer. She is currently the Chair of the Royal Commission for Al-'Ula’s Public Art Expert Panel. She was the Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London from 2001 to 2022. She discovered Damien Hirst and staged his first solo show at a public London art gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1992. In 2008 she was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire for "services to art".