Sir Charles Holroyd (1897 to 1906) D. S. MacColl (1906 to 1911) Charles Aitken (1911 to 1930) James Bolivar Manson (1930 to 1938) Sir John Rothenstein (1938 to 1964) Sir Norman Reid (1964 to 1979) Sir Alan Bowness (1980 to 1988) Sir Nicholas Serota (1988 to 2017) Maria Balshaw (2017 to present)[1][24][25]