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{{Short description|International museum curator}}
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'''Caroline Campbell''' (born [[Belfast]]) is an international art museum curator.  Since November 2022, she is director of the [[National Gallery of Ireland]], being the first woman taking this position in the Gallery’s 158 year history.<ref name="NGI_dir_annmt">{{Cite web |title=National Gallery of Ireland announces appointment of new Director |url=https://www.nationalgallery.ie/what-we-do/our-organisation/new-director-gallery-announced |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=National Gallery of Ireland |language=en}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Caroline Campbell was born and raised in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]].<ref name="NGI_dir_annmt"/>  She studied at the [[University of Oxford]] for her initial degree,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Director of Irish National Gallery - University College Oxford (Univ) - Univ |url=https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/director-of-irish-national-gallery/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=University College Oxford (Univ) |language=en-GB}}</ref> and the [[The Courtauld Institute of Art|Courtauld Institute of Art]] for her Masters and PhD.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meet Caroline Campbell, Director of Collections and Research at the National Gallery |url=https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/meet-caroline-campbell-director-collections-and-research-national-gallery |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=The Warburg Institute |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Caroline Campbell - CCL Class of 2016 |url=https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-program/caroline-campbell/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=Center for Curatorial Leadership |language=en}}</ref>
==Career==
Campbell has held positions in prominent institutions such as the [[Ashmolean Museum]], [[Courtauld Gallery|the Courtauld Gallery]] and the [[National Gallery|National Gallery, London]], where she was the director of collections and research.<ref>{{Cite news |title=National Gallery of Ireland appoints first female director |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/08/04/national-gallery-appoints-first-female-director/ |access-date=2022-08-11 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref>
===Exhibitions===
Among the exhibitions she curated and co-curated are ''Bellini and the East'' (2005–2006), ''Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence'' (2009), ''Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting'' (2014) ''Duccio/Caro: In Dialogue'' (2015), and ''Mantegna and Bellini'' (2018).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Caroline Campbell, Director of Collections and Research {{!}} Art UK |url=https://artuk.org/discover/profile/caroline-campbell-director-of-collections-and-research |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=artuk.org |language=en}}</ref> She was appointed director of the National Gallery of Ireland in 2022, succeeding [[Sean Rainbird]], who had served as director since 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-08-10 |title=Dr Caroline Campbell makes history at national gallery |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-62485676 |access-date=2022-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=National Gallery director Caroline Campbell: ‘I’ve always felt the gallery is connected to the life of Dublin’ |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/2023/03/04/caroline-campbell-playing-for-the-gallery/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref>
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