Courtauld alumni of all generations have gone on to find remarkable success in any number of fields. From their successes as museum directors, curators, academics and conservators, as well as lawyers, publishers, journalists, musicians, politicians and teachers, our graduates are proof that a Courtauld degree is excellent preparation for the future.

While the success stories of alumni could fill a book, examples of some of our most distinguished graduates are listed below.

Selected list of alumni

Critics and Presenters Gabriel Coxhead, Journalist, Critic and Curator Andrew Graham-Dixon, Art critic and Presenter, Sunday Telegraph Nick Hackworth, Art Critic and Founder, Paradise Row Tim Marlow, Presenter and Artistic Director, Royal Academy of Art Brian Sewell, Art Critic (1931-2015) Alastair Sooke, Art Critic and Presenter, Daily Telegraph
Dealers and Gallerists Brian Allen, Chairman, Hazlitt Gooden & Fox Dany Ardouin, Director, Helly Nahmad Gallery John Austin, Director, Austin Desmond Fine Art Charles Beddington, Director, Beddington Fine Art Jack Bell, Founder, Jack Bell Gallery Kristine Bell, Director and Partner, Zwirner & Wirth Josephine Breese and Henry Little, Founders and Directors, Breese Little Gallery Sam Chatterton Dickson, Director, Lisson Gallery Bona Colonna Montagu, Director, Skarstedt Gallery Elizabeth Denny, Founder and Director, Denny Gallery Emmanuel Di Donna, Founder and Director, Di Donna Galleries Mira Dimitrova, Director, Mazzoleni London Marc Domenech-Tomas, Owner, Galeria Marc Domenech John Elderfield, Chief Curator, Painting & Sculpture and Consultant, Gagosian Gallery Jeremy Epstein, Director, Edel Assanti Gallery Romilly Eveleigh, Director, Regina Gallery Paula Feldman Sankoff, Director & Head of Sales Department, Victoria Miro Sam Fogg, Owner and Director, Samuel Fogg Ltd Michael Goedhuis, Owner, Michael Goedhuis Limited Cornelia Grassi, Director, Greengrassi Beth Greenacre, Director, Rokeby Gallery Angus Haldane, Founder, Haldane Fine Art Sara Harrison, Senior Director, Hauser & Wirth, London James Hyman, Founder and Director, James Hyman Gallery Gilbert Guy Lloyd, Owner and Director, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd Stuart Lochhead, Director, Daniel Katz Ltd Alma Luxembourg, Partner, Luxembourg & Dayan Patrick Matthiesen, Owner and Director, Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd Lucy Mitchell-Inness, Owner and Director, Mitchell-Inness & Nash Emmanuel Moatti, Founder and Director, Moatti Masters Contemporary Helly Nahmad, Owner, Helly Nahmed Gallery Flavia Ormond, Owner and Director, Flavia Ormond Fine Arts Chrissie Shearman, Founder, Christina Shearman Art Advisory Tania Sutton, Director, Osborne Samuel Joanna Thornberry, Director, Lisson Gallery Emily Tsingou, Owner, Emily Tsingou Fine Arts Leslie Waddington, Director (1934-2016) Helen Waters, Director, Alan Cristea Gallery Clovis Whitfield, Owner, Whitfield Fine Art Ltd Max Wigram, Director, Max Wigram Gallery
Artists and Architects Ron Bloore, Canadian Abstract Artist and Teacher (1925-2009) Jeremy Deller, 2004 Turner Prize Winner; 2013 UK Representative, Venice Biennale Giacomo Faludi, Architect (1899-1991) Alan Halliday, Artist Chris Kenny, Artist Jeff Wall, Artist
Art Historians and Academics Dawn Ades, Professor Emeritus, History & Theory of Art, University of Essex Wendy Baron, Independent Art Historian Kathy Battista, Program Director, Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute, New York Alan Bowness, Art critic, Academic and Former Director, Tate Britain Norman Bryson, Professor of Art History, University of California, San Diego Malcolm Bull, Professor of Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford Rafael Cardoso, Brazilian Writer and Art Historian Nigel Carrington, Vice Chancellor, University of the Arts London Peter Cherry, Lecturer & Head of Art History Department, Trinity College Dublin T J Clark, Professor Emeritus Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley Robin Cormack, Classicist and Byzantine Art Historian David Cottington, Professor of Modern Art History, Kingston University, London Ilia Doronchenkov, Dean, History of Art, European University at St. Petersburg Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor of History of Art, University College London Cesar Guillen Nunez, Research Fellow and Art Historian, Macau Ricci Institute Jos Hackforth-Jones, Director, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London Mark Hallett, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Charles Hope, Independent Art Historian and Former Director, Warburg Institute Deborah Howard, Professor Emerita of Architectural History, University of Cambridge Athalsteinn Ingolfsson, Lecturer, University of Iceland Neil Jackson, Charles Reilly Professor of Architecture, University of Liverpool Wu Jinding, Pre-eminent Chinese Archaeologist (1901–1948) Mark Jones, Master of St Cross College, Oxford Holger Klein, Department Chair and Professor of Art History, Columbia University Edward Lilley, Former Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol Marco Livingstone, Art Historian and Curator Lydia Matthews, Professor of Visual Culture, The New School of Design Andrew Morrall, Professor & Director of Doctoral Studies, Bard Graduate Center John Onians, Professor Emeritus of World Art, University of East Anglia John Osborne, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University Catherine Petitgas, Art Historian Joachim Pissarro, Professor of Art History & Director of Galleries, Hunter College Griselda Pollock, Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds Liz Prettejohn, Head of Department & Professor of History of Art, University of York Lady Jane Roberts, Former Print Room Curator & Royal Librarian, Windsor Castle Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmith’s College, University of London Mary Rozell, Former Director, Art Business Programme, Sotheby’s Institute, New York Patricia Rubin, Professor and Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director, New York University Institute of Fine Arts Magda Salvesen, Former Adjunct Professor, New York University David Solkin, Former Dean and Deputy Director, Courtauld Institute of Art Mary Anne Stevens, Art Historian and Curator Ann Sutherland Harris, Former Professor of History of Art, University of Pittsburgh Adriana Turpin, Academic Director, IESA -The Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts Alister Warman, former Principal, Byam Shaw School of Art Jonathan Woodham, Director, Centre for Research & Development, University of Brighton Joyce Zemans, Director of MBA Arts and Media, York University, Toronto
Arts Organisation Directors Christopher Breward, Director of Collection and Research, National Galleries of Scotland Noah Charney, Editor in Chief, The Association for Research into Crimes Against Art Andrew Derrick, Director, The Architectural History Practice Emma Dexter, Director of Visual Arts, The British Council Stephanie Dieckvoss, Independent Arts Management Consultant and Lecturer, Central Saint Martins Caroline Douglas, Director, Contemporary Art Society Heather Ewing, Executive Director, Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA), New York Katya Garcia-Anton, Director, Office for Contemporary Art, Norway Jonathan Foyle, Former CEO, World Monuments Fund Britain RoseLee Goldberg, Art historian and Founder, Performa Noah Horowitz, Director Americas, Art Basel, Miami Belinda Kidd, Chief Executive, Bath Festivals Ezra Konvitz, Co- Founder, ArtStack Claire Marmion, Owner, Haven Art Group Chris Pensa, Owner and Director, Love Art London Rebecca Davies, Chief Executive, LAPADA (The Association of Art & Antique Dealers) Ruth Ur, Director Partnerships Europe, British Council
Auction House Professionals Richard Aronowitz-Mercer, Head of Restitution, Sotheby’s London Denise Bethel, Independent Art Advisor Oliver Barker, Deputy Chairman, Europe; Senior International Specialist, Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Alexander Branczik, Senior Director, Head of Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s London Laura Doyle, Senior Vice President, Doyle New York Diana Herzog, President, RM Smythe (1939-2016) Alexander Kader, Director and Head of European Sculpture, Sotheby’s London Michael Macaulay, Vice President and Head of Evening Sale, Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s New York Clare McKeon, Founder and Director, Clare McKeon Designs Claude Piening, Senior Director, 19th Century European Paintings, Sotheby’s London Christina Prescott-Walker, SVP & Department Director, Chinese Works of Art, Sotheby’s Simon Shaw, SVP and Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, Sotheby’s New York David Silcox, Former Vice-President & Chairman of Advisory Board, Sotheby’s Canada Jonathan Stone, Managing Director & International business director, Christie’s Asia Ralph Taylor, European Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Bonham’s Aleksandra Todorovic, Director/Head of Research, Impressionist & Modern, Sotheby’s Juan Varez, Managing Director, Christie’s Spain
Business and Law Erica Bolton, Founding Partner, Bolton & Quinn David Freud, Director, Freud Limited Lorna Harrington, Director, Barrett, Corp & Harrington Ltd Georgiana Head, Founding Director, Georgiana Head Recruitment James McDonaugh, Owner, Art Tours Ltd Daniel McClean, Consultant, Howard Kennedy LLP Martin Randall, Chief Executive, Martin Randall Travel Ltd Calum Sutton, President and CEO, Calum Sutton PR
Conservation Experts Aviva Burnstock, Head of Conservation and Technology, The Courtauld Stephen Gayler, Former Associate Conservator, Modern Art Conservation Lynne Harrison, Paintings Conservator, National Gallery Narayan Khandekar, Director, Harvard University Art Museums Thomas Learner, Head of Contemporary Art Research, Getty Conservation Institute Sally Lescher, Founder & Fine Art Advisor, Conservation Management Ltd Alison Lister, Director and Principal Conservator, Textile Conservation Ltd Ian McClure, Chief Conservator, Yale University Art Gallery Ann-Marie Miller, Book Conservator, Codex Conservation Michael Alan Miller, Associate Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art Sophie Plender, Senior Conservator, National Portrait Gallery & Dulwich Picture Gallery Lesley Stevenson, Senior Paintings Conservator, National Galleries of Scotland Katherine Stonor, Foundes & Directos, Tager Stonor Richardson Sharon Tager, Director of Conservation, Israel Museum Joyce Townsend, Senior Conservation Scientist, Tate Britain Rachel Turnbull, Senior Collections Conservator, English Heritage
Entertainment and Music Industry Simon Banner, Life Coach and Writer Edie Campbell, Fashion Model Shaun Davey, Composer Vincent Price, Actor (1911-1993) Atticus Ross, Musician, 2010 Academy Award, Original Soundtrack, The Social Network
Gallery, Museum and Heritage Directors and Senior Curators David Bagnall, Curator and Director of Interpretation, Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Christopher Bedford, Director, Baltimore Museum of Art Andrew Bonacina, Chief Curator, The Hepworth Wakefield Bruce Boucher, Director, Sir John Soane’s Museum Fiona Bradley, Director, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Christopher Brown, Former Director, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Richard Calvocoressi, Director and Senior Curator, Gagosian Gallery Thomas Campbell, Director and CEO, Metropolitan Museum of Art Timothy Clifford, Former Director, National Galleries of Scotland Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator for Special Projects in Modern Art, National Gallery, USA Tarnya Cooper, Chief & 16th Century Curator, National Portrait Gallery Suzanne Cotter, Director, Serralves Museum, Porto Nicholas Cullinan, Director, National Portrait Gallery Penelope Curtis, Director, Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Maurice Davies, Head of Collections, Royal Academy of Arts Anne D’Harnoncourt, Former Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1943 – 2008) David Elliott, Independent Curator and Former Director, Istanbul Modern Art Museum Anita Feldman, Deputy Director, Curatorial Affairs, San Diego Museum of Art Kaywin Feldman, Director and President, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Gabriele Finaldi, Director, National Gallery, London Paul Greenhalgh, Director, Sainsbury Centre of the Visual Arts William Griswold, Director, The Cleveland Museum of Art Simon Groom, Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Christoph Grunenberg, Director, Kunsthalle Bremem Jenny Harper, Director, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand Jennifer Harris, Deputy Director, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Nicola Kalinsky, Director, Barber Institute of Fine Arts Timothy Knox, Director, The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Janet Landay, Project Director, College Art Association Eric M. Lee, Director, The Kimbell Art Museum John Leighton, Director General, National Galleries of Scotland Knut Ljogodt, Former Director, Northern Norway Art Museum Neil MacGregor, Former Director, British Museum Simon Martin, Artistic Director, Pallant House Gallery Ian McClure, Former Director, Hamilton Kerr Institute Avenal McKinnon, Former Director, New Zealand Portrait Gallery David McTavish, Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre (1943 – 2014) Christopher Monkhouse, Eloise W. Martin Curator & Chairman, Art Institute of Chicago Caroline Morey, Director, Contemporary Art Society Jessica Morgan, Director, Dia Art Foundation Frances Morris, Director, Tate Modern Bera Nordal, Museum Director, The Nordic Watercolour Museum Karsten Ohrt, Chairman, New Carlsberg Foundation & New Carleberg Glyptothek Hans Ottomeyer, Former Director, Deutsches Historisches Museum Ratan Parimoo, Director, LD Museum and NC Metha Gallery Nicholas Penny, Former Director, National Gallery London Carolyn Peter, Director and Curator, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator Emerita, Phillips Collection, Washington DC Brett Rogers, Director, The Photographers’ Gallery, London Matthew Rowe, Former Director, Firstsite Contemporary Visual Arts, Colchester William Rudolph, Mellon Chief Curator & Curator of American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art Xavier Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York Jennifer Scott, Director, Dulwich Picture Gallery Nicholas Serota, Chair, Arts Council England Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, Royal Collection Alan Shestack, Former Deputy Director & Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art, Washington Laurence Sillars, Chief Curator, BALTIC Centre, Newcastle Alexander Sturgis, Director, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Jean Sutherland Boggs, first female Director of both the National Gallery of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1922-2014) Luke Syson, Iris and B Gerald Cantor Chairman, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Michael Taylor, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Matthew Teitelbaum, Director, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Simon Thurley, Senior Research Fellow, The Institute of Historical Research Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, Head of The Courtauld Gallery Malcolm Warner, Executive Director, Laguna Art Museum John Wilson, Former Director, Timkin Museum of Art Matthias Winner, Director, Bibliotheca Hertziana Ari Wiseman, Deputy Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Publishers, Journalists and Editors Simon Bradley, Editor, Pevsner Architectural Guides David Cohen, Editor and Publisher, Art Critical Online Jacky Klein, Executive Editor, Tate Publishing Anael Pigeat, Editor, Art Press Max Porter, Senior Editor, Granta Books & Portobello Books Cristina Ruiz, Editor at Large, The Art Newspaper Anthony Rushton, Former Art Editor, Private Eye Robin Simon, Founding Editor, British Art Journal Anna Somers Cocks, Founding Editor and CEO, The Art Newspaper; Group Editorial Director, Umberto Allemendi Publishing Peifen Sung, Founder, Peifen Fine Art Sophy Thompson, Publishing Director, Thames & Hudson Peter Trippi, Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur; Former Director, Dahesh Museum
Writers Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-Winning Novelist and Art Historian (1928-2016) Nell Dunn, Writer Lucy Ellmann, Novelist Lavinia Greenlaw, Poet & Novelist Alexandra Harris, Writer, Winner of 2010 Guardian First Book Award Rosemary Harris, Children’s Book Author, Carnegie Medal Winner Nicole Krauss, Novelist Iain Sinclair, Writer and Filmmaker John Russell Taylor, Film Critic and Author Giles Waterfield, Novelist and Associate Scholar, The Courtauld Institute of Art (1949-2016)
Government Nicky Gavron, Deputy Mayor of London, 2004-2008 Nancy Lee Johnson, Congresswoman from 1983-2007, Connecticut, USA David Madden, Former British Ambassador to Greece from 1999-2004 Clare Pillman, Chief Executive, Natural Resources Wales Colin Roberts, Governor, Falkland Islands
Royalty Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, Member of the Royal Family of Jordan Narisa Chakrabongse, Member of the Royal Family of Thailand