Jessica Morgan named new Tate director – with ‘big pay cut‘ to take job

Clear frontrunner leaves lucrative role at New York’s Dia Art Foundation to join UK arts organisation at critical juncture

Jessica Morgan has been confirmed as the new director of Tate, marking her return to the arts organisation where she worked as a curator for more than a decade, at a critical juncture in its history.

Morgan, the clear frontrunner in the race to replace Maria Balshaw, who left this spring after https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/dec/12/maria-balshaw-tate-director-art-culture">nine years in charge, is currently based in New York, where she has led the Dia Art Foundation since 2015.