ARTnews – The Socrates Sculpture Park in the Long Island City area of Queens has named Tamsin Dillon as its next executive director. Dillon succeeds Suzy Delvalle, who has served as interim director since July, and John Hatfield, who was executive director from 2012 until 2021. She begins in her role this month.
Dillon has over 25 years of experience in mounting public art projects. After moving to New York in 2019, she founded Art in Public to commission new work. Last year, she curated “Waterfronts,” a showing of seven temporary outdoor artworks exhibited around England’s Creative Coast (which encompasses Kent, Essex, and Sussex). That exhibition included commissions by Michael Rakowitz, Mariana Castillo Deball, Holly Hendry, and Pilar Quinteros. She has also previously worked on commissioning artists’ works in the London Underground and King’s Cross, and for a project intended to commemorate World War I. Read more.