Director The Whitworth
Sook-Kyung Lee is Director of The Whitworth and Professor of Curatorial Practices at the University of Manchester. She was previously Senior Curator, International Art at Tate Modern (2012–2023) and Curator at Tate Liverpool (2007–2012). Her major curatorial roles include Curator of the Japan Pavilion (2024) and Commissioner & Curator of the Korean Pavilion (2015) at the Venice Art Biennale, and Artistic Director of the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023). Selected exhibitions and publications include Santiago Yahuarcani: The Beginning of Knowledge (2025), Yuko Mohri: Compose (2024), and Nam June Paik (2019).
Lee serves on Turner Prize 2026 juries and several advisory boards internationally, and her curatorial and directorial practice focuses on exhibition and collection policy, community-led and audience-oriented museum practices, and global art histories.
Image: courtesy of Gwangju Biennale Foundation.