Dr Flavia Frigeri © David Parry
Dr Flavia Frigeri to oversee curatorial departments and lead on acquisitions at National Portrait Gallery from April 2025, bringing expertise from Tate Modern and UCL
The National Portrait Gallery has announced the appointment of a new curatorial and collections director.
Dr Flavia Frigeri will oversee the curatorial, collections management, archive and library departments. She will also lead on acquisitions and commissions, gallery displays and interpretation of the collection from the Tudors to the present day.
The new appointment is currently the CHANEL curator for the collection at the gallery, where she leads on the partnership project supported by the fashion brand’s CHANEL Culture Fund.
Dr Frigeri will take up this new role in April 2025, following the departure of Dr Alison Smith, who until June 2024 served as the National Portrait Gallery’s Chief Curator.
Dr Frigeri’s experience includes serving as curator of international art at Tate Modern and lecturer on modern and contemporary art at UCL, London.
Also an author, she most recently co-edited ‘Women at Work: 1900 to Now’ and a volume of collected essays ‘New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms’.
Gallery director Victoria Siddall said: “[Dr Frigeri] has already made such a significant impact on our Collection, and her ideas, passion and expertise will be vital in shaping our work and our impact in the years ahead.
Dr Frigeri added: “I am thrilled to take on this new role and to continue bringing my passion for art and history to this magnificent institution, which uniquely celebrates the lives of those past and present to illuminate our future.”
