10 Facts About Tarnya Cooper

Tarnya Cooper has previously been the Chief Curator and Curatorial Director at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Tarnya Cooper obtained a D Phil from the University of Sussex in 2002.

Tarnya Cooper was Assistant Curator of the College Art Collections and taught art history at University College London.

Tarnya Cooper moved to the NPG in 2002 to become the 16th Century Curator.

Tarnya Cooper led the seven-year "Making Art in Tudor Britain" project.

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Tarnya Cooper was appointed Chief Curator at the NPG in 2011 and was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in June of that year.

Tarnya Cooper co-curated the exhibition Elizabeth I at the National Maritime Museum in 2003 and was a contributor to the catalogue.

Tarnya Cooper curated Searching for Shakespeare at the National Portrait Gallery in 2006.

Tarnya Cooper curated the display The Real Tudors at the National Portrait Gallery, which includes results from the NPG's "Making Art in Tudor Britain" research project.

Tarnya Cooper is co-editor of Painting in Britain 1500 - 1630: Production, Influences, and Patronage, an interdisciplinary survey published by the British Academy and Oxford University Press in 2015.