"It has been an absolute privilege to serve as director of Tate over this last decade and to work with such talented colleagues and artists. With a growing and increasingly diverse audience, and with a brilliant forward plan in place, I feel now is the right time to pass on the baton to a next director who will take the organisation into its next decade of innovation and artistic leadership."
"Maria has been a trailblazer at Tate. She has never wavered from her core belief-that more people deserve to experience the full richness of art, and more artists deserve to be part of that story. As the home of British art and of international modern and contemporary art, Tate today reflects the audiences we serve and the artists who make up our nation. We engage a wider public than ever before through our own galleries, our digital channels, and our projects in other venues"
Maria Balshaw will step down as director of Tate in spring 2026. She joined Tate in 2017, replacing Nicholas Serota after his 29-year tenure. Her decade at Tate included major exhibitions such as The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain (2019), Yoko Ono (2024) and Sargent and Fashion (2024). Her final Tate project will be co-curating Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern (27 February–31 August). Tate’s collection acquisitions gained greater gender balance and wider geographic breadth under her leadership. Tate membership grew to 150,000, and public engagement expanded through galleries, digital channels and external projects.
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