Lizzie Carey-Thomas joined the Serpentine Galleries as Head of Programmes in 2015 after 16 years at Tate Britain as Curator of Contemporary Art. Working alongside Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist to devise the programme, she leads the curatorial team in the delivery of the Exhibitions, Public Programmes and Education Projects.
During her time at Tate, she was curator of the Turner Prize since 2002 and lead curator of the Art Now series of projects for emerging artists (2002–2012). She worked closely with Nicolas Bourriaud in devising the Tate Triennial: Altermodern (2009) and curated the major Sotheby’s Commissions Fiona Banner: Harrier and Jaguar (2010) and Simon Starling: Phantom Ride (2013). In 2012 she was the lead curator for the exhibition Migrations: Journeys into British Art, which explored the impact of migration on 500 years of British art through the Tate collection. She is a trustee of both The Elephant Trust and Fluxus Art Projects.