Vicente Todolí

Vicente Todolí, graduated in Art History from the University of Valencia, he pursued postgraduate studies at Yale University (United States) with a Fulbright scholarship. He later studied Modern Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and was awarded a fellowship in the International Study Program for curators at the Whitney Museum in New York City. Throughout his professional career, focused on contemporary art, he has served as Head of the Art Department at the IVAM, Valencian Institute of Modern Art (1985-1995), Founding Director of the Serralves Museum in Porto (1996-2002), Director of the Tate Modern in London (2003-2010), and since 2013, Artistic Director of the Pirelli HangarBicocca Museum in Milan. Additionally, he advises various nonprofit organizations, such as the Inelcom Collection in Madrid, and was the first person responsible for the collection and programming of the Bombas Gens center in Valencia. He is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, received the Order of Santiago da Espada in Portugal (2003), and holds an honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2011). He has been a member of the Advisory Committee for Plastic Arts at the Botín Foundation since 2003, and since 2011, he has been its president.