Dr. Zoé Whitley

Dr. Zoé Whitley is the director of Chisenhale Gallery, a non-profit contemporary art gallery in London, which she joined in 2020. Previously, she was senior curator at London’s Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre. In 2019, she curated Cathy Wilkes’ British Council commission in the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. From 2014 to 2019, Whitley was curator of international art at Tate Modern and briefly held a joint tenure as curator of contemporary British art at Tate Britain. She spent 2003 to 2013 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, first as assistant curator of prints and drawings, then as curator of contemporary programs, specializing in site-specific artist commissions and temporary exhibitions. Named to Apollo Magazine's “40 Under 40” in 2018, Whitley currently serves on the advisory committees of Guest Artists Space Foundation, an artist residency and international collaboration non-profit in Nigeria, and the London Mayor’s Commission on Diversity in the Public Realm. She is a trustee of the Teiger Foundation.