Background
Cullinan was born in Connecticut and raised in Yorkshire.
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Nicholas Cullinan
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He received his Bachelor, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Career
On 6 January 2015 it was announced that he would be the 12th director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, a post he took up in the spring. In 2001-2003, while a student, he worked as a visitor services assistant at the National Portrait Gallery, where he is now director In 2006-2007 he held the Hilla Rebay International Fellowship at the Guggenheim museums in Bilbao, New York and Venice.
From 2007 to 2013 he was curator of international modern art at Tate Modern.
He then joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as its curator of modern and contemporary art In 2014 he co-curated an exhibition of Henri Matisse"s cut-outs at Tate Modern with Sir Nicholas Serota.
The exhibition was the most successful in the gallery"s history, attracting more than 500,000 visitors.
