Directora de Whitechapel Gallery, en Londres, desde 2001 a abril de 2022. Iwona Blazwick is an art critic and lecturer, and was Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London since 2001 to April 2022. She remain affiliated with the gallery into 2023 as an independent curator. 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. Blazwick is said to be one of the most important woman in British art and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to art in 2008. She is married to Canadian philosopher and fine art lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London, Richard Noble.