Iwona Blazwick

Iwona Maria Blazwick OBE is a British art critic and lecturer. She is currently the Chair of the Royal Commission for Al-'Ula’s Public Art Expert Panel. She was the Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London from 2001 to 2022. She discovered Damien Hirst and staged his first solo show at a public London art gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1992. She supports the careers of young artists.

14 October 1955

Born on the same birth date (14 October 1955): Arleen Sorkin

Born on the same birth day (14 October): Alan Williams (Swansea West MP) • Alicja Dorabialska • Beth Daniel • C. Everett Koop • Carlos Spencer • Constantine Koukias • Dave Schultz (ice hockey) • Dorothy Kingsley • Dwayne Schintzius • George Grenville • Hans Kraay Sr. • Jessica Drake • Jim Jackson (basketball) • Johnny Goudie • Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen • Laurie Lawrence • Marcel Chaput • Mikhail Pervukhin • Perrie Mans • Robert Parker (singer) • Robert Simson • Roger Moore • Sumner Welles

Born in the same month (October 1955): Aaron Pryor • Alain Ferté • Arleen Sorkin • Buket Uzuner • Dan Gutman • Debra Bowen • Einar Jan Aas • Jane Siberry • John S. Lesmeister • Jorge Valdano • Matthias Jabs • Moshe Kam • Stu Mead • Thomas Newman