Caroline Campbell (museum director)
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Caroline Campbell (born Belfast) is an international art museum curator. Since November 2022, she is director of the National Gallery of Ireland, being the first woman taking this position in the Gallery’s 158 year history.{{Cite web |title=National Gallery of Ireland announces appointment of new Director |url=https://www.nationalgallery.ie/what-we-do/our-organisation/new-director-gallery-announced |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=National Gallery of Ireland |language=en}}
Early life and education
Caroline Campbell was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She studied at the University of Oxford for her initial degree,{{Cite web |title=Director of Irish National Gallery - University College Oxford (Univ) - Univ |url=https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/director-of-irish-national-gallery/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=University College Oxford (Univ) |language=en-GB}} and the Courtauld Institute of Art for her Masters and PhD.{{Cite web |title=Meet Caroline Campbell, Director of Collections and Research at the National Gallery |url=https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/meet-caroline-campbell-director-collections-and-research-national-gallery |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=The Warburg Institute |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Caroline Campbell - CCL Class of 2016 |url=https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-program/caroline-campbell/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=Center for Curatorial Leadership |language=en}}
Career
Campbell has held positions in prominent institutions such as the Ashmolean Museum, the Courtauld Gallery and the National Gallery, London, where she was the director of collections and research.{{Cite news |title=National Gallery of Ireland appoints first female director |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/08/04/national-gallery-appoints-first-female-director/ |access-date=2022-08-11 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}
=Exhibitions=
Among the exhibitions she curated and co-curated are Bellini and the East (2005–2006), Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence (2009), Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting (2014) Duccio/Caro: In Dialogue (2015), and Mantegna and Bellini (2018).{{Cite web |title=Caroline Campbell, Director of Collections and Research {{!}} Art UK |url=https://artuk.org/discover/profile/caroline-campbell-director-of-collections-and-research |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=artuk.org |language=en}} She was appointed director of the National Gallery of Ireland in 2022, succeeding Sean Rainbird, who had served as director since 2012.{{Cite news |date=2022-08-10 |title=Dr Caroline Campbell makes history at national gallery |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-62485676 |access-date=2022-08-11}}{{Cite news |title=National Gallery director Caroline Campbell: 'I've always felt the gallery is connected to the life of Dublin' |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/2023/03/04/caroline-campbell-playing-for-the-gallery/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}
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